Forbidden fruit?
Their close association with food and its production notwithstanding, women are increasingly falling victims to hunger
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Solar PV rural electrification and energy-poverty: a review and conceptual framework with reference to Ghana
In spite of the intention of governments to increase the use of renewable energy in electricity supply, particularly the use of solar photovoltaic (PV) for energy poverty reduction in rural and peri-urban areas of Africa, there is relatively little information on how solar PV electrification impacts on energy poverty reduction.
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Deficit Budget in Meghalaya
SHILLONG, June 23: Meghalaya Deputy Chief Minister in-charge of Finance Dr Mukul Sangma today placed the Budget estimate of the State for the current fiscal that is expected to close with a deficit of Rs 400,31,25,640.
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Climate change and food systems: global assessments and implications for food security and trade
<p>This new FAO book presents a comprehensive perspective linking climate change to food, nutrition, water, and trade along with suggested policy responses.</p>
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The food price crisis and urban food insecurity
This paper argues that the disproportionate attention that policy solutions to the food price crisis give to rural dwellers is probably misplaced. Although in developing countries rural poverty is often deeper and more widespread than urban poverty, rural dwellers are often net producers of food, frequently of the very staples whose prices are rising.
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Does organic agriculture lead to better health among poor farmers?
Poverty and health are inextricably linked as the poor are always the first to suffer from degraded soil, water, and environment. For poor farmers in developing countries, inappropriate use of pesticides is known to be a serious problem.
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The poor suffer as grains vanish in bureaucratic web
The much-hyped Food-for-work programme seems to have landed in the bureaucratic web. Designed to provide relief to people below poverty line in areas affected by natural calamities, the programme has
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A new vision for weather and climate services in Africa
The collection, analysis and distribution of reliable weather, water and climate information— collectively referred to as climate and weather services—has the potential to greatly benefit efforts by African
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A new vision for weather and climate services in Africa
The collection, analysis and distribution of reliable weather, water and climate information— collectively referred to as climate and weather services—has the potential to greatly benefit efforts by African
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Study reveals the gender gap in Tanzania, Uganda climate policies
Climate change is negatively affecting many regions of the world. The impact is more pronounced in regions with limited economic resources to adapt and highly reliant on natural resources. In East Africa,
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Food insecurity and violent conflict: Causes, consequences, and addressing the challenges
Rising food prices contribute to food insecurity, which is a clear and serious threat to human security. Interest in food security as a catalyst for political instability and conflict has grown rapidly
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Let them eat kernel...
In Kashipur, starvation continues to stalk its residents. Nearly 50 people died after consum-ing ungus-ridden mango kernel till August. But the state government defended this say-ing that mango
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Africa Progress Report 2015: power, people, planet- seizing Africa’s energy and climate opportunities
Renewable energy is at the forefront of the changes sweeping Africa, and a “triple win” is within the region’s grasp to increase agricultural productivity, improve resilience to climate change, and contribute
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Beware of chemicals impacts on health and environment: minister
Environment Minister Hameedullah Jan Afridi has said indiscriminate use of chemicals to achieve and maintain development tempo in agriculture, industry and urban settlements was damaging public health and natural resources of the country.
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Divide and rule
The failure of India s rural planning policies is due to the lack of understanding of human land relationship
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Rising food prices: Cause for concern
The current spike in food prices needs prompt reaction through various forms of social protection to avert poverty and hunger. Prices are soon likely to fall somewhat, but not to their previous levels.
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Were district choices for NFFWP appropriate?
The National Food for Work Programme (NFFWP), launched in 2004, identified 50 backward districts, where employment guarantee scheme was to get started. The 150 districts were identified by the Planning Commission on the basis of three criteria, Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes (SC/ST) population, agricultural productivity per worker, and agricultural wage rate in the district. The author find that the final choice for the NFFWP was not consistent with the methodology mentioned, nor can it be defended by using other measures of backwardness.
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Green scheme for MP villages
Barren land in four villages of Narsinghpur district in Madhya Pradesh has turned fertile, thanks to the District Poverty Initiative Programme (DPIP). The farmers told Mr. Singh that with the
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Reforms not reaching the poor: Experts
Balanced, regional growth in the agriculture sector would be an effective means for alleviating rural poverty, experts deliberating on 'Rural Poverty and Livelihood Security' here today pointed out.
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Thailand tries to dig farmers out of hole
Government measures to help Thai farmers, such as price supports and credit subsidies, will have only a limited impact on alleviating the poverty of small landholders, who derive up to 70 per cent of