World migration report 2024
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) launched the World Migration Report 2024, which reveals significant shifts in global migration patterns, including a record number of displaced people
Food Security
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Nepal s poor carry it off
As the Himalayan country s forestry scheme for the poor reaps rich dividends, its government entrusts more degraded areas to the underprivileged. The only hurdle for a complete environmental revival seems to be bureaucratic inertia
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Burden of beast
Mounting economic pressures cast a dark shadow on the future of camels and their traditional breeders in Rajasthan
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Fishy depictions
Exaggerated reporting about fish catches has painted a false picture of the oceans health
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Climate change and agricultural vulnerability
The methodology and results reported in this study form a first comprehensive and integrated global ecological
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Fruitful deliberations
Two global meetings chart a course for weeding out biopiracy
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Supreme Court order on Mid Day Meal Scheme (MDMS) dated 28/11/2001
Supreme Court order on Mid Day Meal Scheme (MDMS) dated 28/11/2001 in the matter of People's Union for Civil Liberties Vs Union of India & Ors.
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Down the drain
The recently launched food for work programme may not ensure local food security
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Hungry for research
Child starvation could increase unless research is improved
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Food for thought
Newspapers come replete with news of starvation deaths while stocks go waste in government storage houses. Food scarcity in India is a more a human-made problem that one brought upon by nature's
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Solving poverty
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