Food Supply

Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding illegal mining in village Leta, district Mahoba, Uttar Pradesh, 23/05/2025

Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Akhilesh Kumar Vs State of Uttar Pradesh & Others dated 23/05/2025. The matter related to illegal mining activites carried out by Jai Maa Chandrika Enterprises, Rajendra Nagar, village Kabari, district Mahoba, Uttar Pradesh. The applicant also alleged about illegal sale …

Bilateral trade and food security

The authors analyze the relationship between food security and trade, focusing on food importers’ exposure to sudden market failures from relying on a narrow range of international suppliers. They compute a bilateral import penetration index (BIPI), which gauges the degree to which a country depends on another for food imports. …

Govt passes resolution on Food Security Bill

The Delhi Legislative Assembly today on the first day of the Monsoon Session passed a resolution on the Food Security Bill, moved by Mukesh Sharma, Parliamentary Secretary to the Chief Minister, Sheila Dikshit. He said that once the Bill becomes law, it would ensure wheat, rice and coarse wheat to …

UPA secures food Bill as Opposition is in disarray

If the Opposition parties co-operated with the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) in the end to pass the long-pending Food Security Bill in the Lok Sabha, it was because they had little choice, with the government posing it as the ultimate pro-poor measure. But the fact that the Opposition failed to …

Onus on states to identify food Bill beneficiaries in one year

Lok Sabha passed the National Food Security Bill 2013 on Monday after a series of amendments, including one-year time for states to identify beneficiaries and fixing annual grain allocation to the states. Under the new Bill, the annual allocation of gain for states have been estimated at 55 million tonne. …

State govt to revise Atta-Dal Scheme

Punjab has decided not to change the name of its flagship Atta-Dal Scheme even as it readies to implement the Food Security Bill. The state will be revising its Atta-Dal Scheme to provide wheat to beneficiaries at a rate lower than Rs 2 per kg proposed by the UPA Government …

Israeli Researcher Creates Drought-Resistant 'Superplants'

Israeli researchers engineer drought resistant plants that could be a game-changer in the global food crisis, requiring less water, yielding bigger harvests, and staying fresh longer. Professor of Biology Shimon Gepstein of Haifa's Technion University pioneered research that may represent a major advance in food supplies worldwide. According to Technion …

K'taka to distribute grains at Re 1 per kg from October 2

The BPL families have been saving about Rs 800 per month after the launch of the Anna Bhagya scheme. The Karnataka government will distribute ragi, jowar and wheat at Rs 1 per kg to the families living below the poverty line (BPL) across the state from October 2 under its …

LS passes food security bill, Cong, Oppn battle for credit

NewDelhi:The Lok Sabha on Monday passed the food security bill, barely eight months ahead of the 2014 Lok Sabha election amid a fierce competition between Congress and the opposition to daub themselves in populist colours. Termed a “gamechanger” by UPA-2, the food security bill went through a protracted passage in …

Maha to launch food security scheme in Dec: Minister

Maharashtra government is all set to roll out the ambitious food security scheme in the state from early December which will benefit about 7.17 crore people, a state minister has said. This includes 4.70 crore people in the rural areas (76.32 per cent) and 2.30 crore in urban areas (45.34 …

Fixing midday meals

The tragic episode in a school in Bihar, where 23 children died because of contaminated food, is unacceptable. But it is also a fact that the midday meal scheme, under which cooked food is compulsorily provided to children in government schools across India, is too important and critical to be …

Mid-day meal scheme: Centre for dist-level monitoring

Jammu, August 22: Expressing concern over alleged reports of mismanagement in the implementation of the mid-day meal scheme, the Union Human Resource Development (HRD) Ministry had written to Education Secretaries of all states, including Jammu and Kashmir, for an indepth review of this Centrally sponsored scheme. The ministry has stressed …

A toxic lesson in despair

The village looks as if the grim reaper paid a surprise visit. One can still hear the faint cries of wailing mothers. It has been five days since the mid-day meal contaminated with a deadly insecticide served at the Gandaman lower primary school killed 23 children on 16 July. Twenty-seven …

Why are midday meals not up to the mark: High Court

Taking note of a report published in Newsline on Wednesday, the Delhi High Court has asked the Delhi government and the three civic agencies to look into the issue of why the midday meals supplied to students in schools run by the three civic agencies of the capital are not …

Enhancing food security through acclimatized species domestication in the Haor Region

Stratagem to promote improvement based on the cultivating, nurturing, harvesting, jamboree, processing, collecting period and diversifying of acclimatized species implicitly target households as principal beneficiaries in haor region of Bangladesh. This paper suggests that the cultivation and domestication of acclimatized species can play important roles for enhancing food security in …

Global food security index 2013: an annual measure of the state of global food security

The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) issued findings from the annual Global Food Security Index, a first-of-its-kind ranking tool to comprehensively measure food security and monitor the ongoing impact of agriculture investments, collaborations and policies around the world. Commissioned by DuPont, the 2013 Index expands on the 25 previously identified food …

Famine looms large in Bajhang‚ Bajura‚ Doti

With heavy rainfall and landslides damaging the road network, famine looms large in the hill districts of Doti, Bajura and Bajhang. According to a source, famine conditions prevail in the Bungal area of Bajhang, the southern belt of Doti, and Bichhyan VDC of Bajura. Most of the roads in these …

The state of food and agriculture 2013: food systems for better nutrition

The Green Revolution reduced hunger also in India, but it is not enough to raise yields, other, complementary interventions in the food system and other sectors are also important says this 2013 edition of FAO's State of Food & Agriculture report. Malnutrition in all its forms – undernutrition, micronutrient deficiencies, …

Global food security

In 2012, the G8 launched a New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition, an alliance of G8 countries, developing country governments and private companies. The G8 will return to the subject during the UK’s Presidency in 2013. As well as hosting the G8 summit on 17-18 June, on 8 June …

PAISA District Surveys Mid-Day Meal Scheme (2012)

This study conducted by Accountability Initiative found several inefficiencies and widespread irregularities in implementation of the flagship Mid-Day Meal scheme in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. This study attempts to fill this gap in the context of the Mid Day Meal scheme (MDM). It employs a unique method to track fund …

Performance audit of storage management and movement of food grains in Food Corporation of India

This report of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India contains the results of performance audit of Storage Management and Movement of Food Grains in Food Corporation of India. The performance audit was conducted through test audit of records of the Corporation and the Ministry of Consumers Affairs, Food and …

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