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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The truth of grains
The recent starvation deaths in Orissa have thrown up a more fundamental question that of local food security.
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Keep on the grass
Alpine pastures are thriving despite policies to encourage grazing. But Himalayan pastures languish despite strong conservationist policies
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Who is protected?
The Lok Sabha passed Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers’ Rights Bill with complete amendments on August 9, 2001, twenty months after it was first moved in the Parliament. But experts are doubtful about the rights and protection that the bill seeks
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STARVATION AMIDST PLENTY
The Supreme Court has directed six drought-prone states to reopen closed public distribution shops. The court's directive was given in response to a lawsuit filed by the People's Union for Civil
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Stilted against South
Climate change could rob developing nations of its food security
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UNITED NATIONS
A UN commission has agreed on setting up, for the first time, global principles for assessing the safety of genetically modified (GM) foods. The Codex Alimentarius Commission, a division of the World
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Order of the Supreme Court of India regarding the issue of food security in India, 23/07/2011
<p>Order of the Supreme Court of India in the People's Union for Civil Liberties Vs Union of India & Ors dated 23/07/2001 regarding the issue of food security in India.</p> <p>In their Order the
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Should children drink beer?
A campaign against dairy products has been launched by an overzealous NGO
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Spreading message
Increasing water harvesting and water conservation is the only way to ensure food security
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Cereal killer
By promotong rice over coarse grains, the government is promoting food scarcity and defeciency of micronutrients among India’s most malnourished sections