This special report from the World Peace Foundation documents how Ethiopian and Eritrean belligerents in the war in Tigray have comprehensively dismantled the region’s economy and food system. It provide evidence of their ongoing actions to deprive people of objects and activities indispensable to their survival—actions that amount to international …
New Delhi: India ranks 65th out of 79 countries on the Global Hunger Index, a new report by the International Food Policy Research Institute, Welthungerhilfe and Concern Worldwide has said. The report has sharply criticized India for not moving fast enough to reduce malnourishment, and has said that its nutritional …
The United Nations says its 2009 announcement that 1 billion people in the world were hungry was off-target and that the number is actually 870 million. The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in its State of Food Insecurity in the World 2012 report blamed flawed methodology and poor data …
Organic foods are not healthier or better for the environment – and they’re packed with pesticides, argued Rob Johnston in his article “The great organic myths” published in these columns on August 8. Here is the counter view Myths about industrial agriculture Dr Vandana Shiva Industrial agriculture is an inefficient …
Press for universal public distribution system Right to Food Campaign—a conglomeration of civil society groups — on Tuesday held a day-long protest at Jantar Mantar here, raising seven questions with MPs on the proposed National Food Security Bill, particularly in relation to people going hungry when the country has surplus …
The Pakistan Economy Watch (PEW) on Friday said an immediate ban on biofuel production can save the world from looming food crisis which can result in massive malnutrition, starvation, and riots. The worst drought in 50 years in the US and lack of rains in India and some other countries …
Jharkhand Government has taken initiatives to provide food security and a dignified life to all citizens, Chief Minister Arjun Munda said after unfurling the National flag to mark the Independence Day here. “Economist Amartya Sen has said if a person has money to purchase, that person could not be hungry. …
Belpahari, Aug. 7: In the past 40 years, only one chief minister — S.S. Ray — has visited Belpahari, one of the state’s most backward areas where six starvation-like deaths were reported in the past eight years and where many poverty-stricken people eat ant eggs. Ray had come to Belpahari, …
With more than half the continental US experiencing a severe drought, global food prices have skyrocketed in recent days. Separately, long-term projections just released by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) expect prices to remain high over the coming decade …
RTI Reply By Delhi Police Reveals 737 Died Of Hunger, Poverty In 14 Years New Delhi: For a government that flaunts the “global city” tag, here is some disturbing news. A recent RTI reply from four Delhi Police districts – out of a total of 11 – received by RTI …
KOLKATA, 3 JULY: Plots belonging to the tribals in north Bengal have been occupied by non-tribals but the state backward classes welfare department is unable to restore them because of legal complications coming in the way. According to an official of the department, land in Jalpaiguri and Malda and few …
- Poverty-stricken parents demand ICDS classes be shut but want to take home food for kids Going to school in peak summer heat is cruel, but going without the meal even more so for many children in East Midnapore. Parents of children enrolled in a pre-school educational programme under the …
Late last year, fishermen began finding dead dolphins, hundreds of them, washed up on Peru’s northern coast. Now, seabirds have begun dying, too, and the government has yet to conclusively pinpoint a cause. Officials insist that the two die-offs are unrelated. The dolphins are succumbing to a virus, they suggest, …
This brief status report of human rights in India gives a general overview of the most critical human rights issues in India today. It has been drafted by the Working Group on Human Rights in India and the UN (WGHR), a platform of some of Inida’s important human rights groups, …
BALANGIR: Infamous for starvation deaths, migration and poverty, Bangomunda block in Balangir district is reeling under water crisis. The scorching heat and drying water bodies are not only taking a toll on the humans, but have impacted the animals as well. The Undeer, Arjuni and Bhuasenjoar Nullah hardly have water …
SILCHAR: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has taken up the case of land-grabbing, diversion of forest land on Patharia Reserve Forest, pushing about 300 families of forest dwellers on the brink of starvation, besides rendering them homeless. The human rights watchdog of the nation registered the case in the …
The UPA-II has used the Budget to again play politics with hunger. But it has paid no heed to the ticking time bomb of growing social tensions as 58 million Indians living off agriculture slide deeper into poverty. The Economic Survey says more than half the population is dependent on …
Dear Prime Minister, We welcome the tabling of a National Food Security Bill in the Lok Sabha as an important step towards the elimination of hunger and undernutrition in India. However, we feel that the Bill in its current form has some serious shortcomings. We are writing to propose a …
With 230 million people under-nourished, the country awaits some comprehensive policy intervention from the government to tackle this haunting crisis. One of the most logical measures would be to provide a fixed amount of foodgrain to all citizens. But wouldn’t the costs be enormous, ask sceptics? The Center for Budget …
The eastern region of the country, which occasionally hits the headlines for starvation deaths, has turned into a food surplus zone thanks to a special programme launched last year to boost productivity in the area. The government said on Friday that "bringing green revolution in eastern India programme (BGREI)", launched …
BANDA/CHITRAKOOT: Sunita's hands tremble as she picks up a heavy hammer to break a stone boulder in Narhari village, about 40 km from main Banda city. It has been more than three hours since the 18-yearold has been doing what her father Jagat Pal never wanted. "But we do not …
