Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it provides employment to people. Most importantly, cooking and eating give us pleasure. …
This National Food Security Bill, 2011 has been approved by Sonia Gandhi-led National Advisory Council and sent to the government. It seeks legal food entitlements to 90 per cent rural and 50 per cent urban households. An Act to ensure public provisioning of food and related measures to enable assured …
The objective of this study was to examine the association between Brazil’s Bolsa Familia programme (BFP), which is the world's largest conditional cash transfer programme, and the anthropometric indicators of nutritional status in children. Original Source
The present study comprises of field trips in different rural localities of Kollam and Thiruvananthapuram districts of Kerala. Information regarding the occurrence of plant species, their local names, parts ued, formulations and vegetable preparations through interviews and discussions held with elderly persons of rural communities were recorded. The plant specimens …
The present study comprises of field trips in different rural localities of Kollam and Thiruvananthapuram districts of Kerala. Information regarding the occurrence of plant species, their local names, parts ued, formulations and vegetable preparations through interviews and discussions held with elderly persons of rural communities were recorded. The plant specimens …
The UN Conference on the Environment held in 1992 in Rio-de-Janeiro is a landmark in human efforts to keep our planet over blue. Twenty years after Rio, we are struggling to find a pathway of development which concurrently integrates the principles of ecology, economics, equity, ethics and employment. Green Economy …
Let me recall the events leading to the adoption of the New strategy for Agricultural Development in India in the year 1965. After an impressive increase in agricultural production during the first two Five-Year Plans, there was a spell of stagnancy in the early 1960s. Population increased at a rapid …
Agriculture for the Indian rural people is the way of life, a tradition, which for centuries, has shaped thought, outlook, culture and economic life of the people of the country. It is not a commodity machine but the backbone of the livelihood security system, where more than two-thirds of the …
In a shocking and distressing revelation Health Minister Maithripala Sirisena said yesterday long term malnutrition was as high 41 per cent in Nuwara Eliya with the short term malnutrition was at 11 per cent and called for a sharp change in food patterns among Sri Lankans. He said malnutrition and …
49 amendments to be made to communal violence Bill Sonia Gandhi-led National Advisory Council (NAC) has cleared the draft National Food Security Bill, 2011, which guarantees subsidised foodgrain to at least 90 per cent of rural households and 50 per cent urban households. The draft Food Bill will now be …
The contribution of nutrients from animal pollinated world crops has not previously been evaluated as a biophysical measure for the value of pollination services. This study evaluates the nutritional composition of animal-pollinated world crops. We calculated pollinator dependent and independent proportions of different nutrients of world crops, employing FAO data …
4,531 men, 3,403 women and 25 transgenders had tested HIV positive In 2010, Coimbatore was in second place Awareness programme to be conducted COIMBATORE: Coimbatore district has 8,359 HIV positive people, including 17 prisoners, Collector M. Karunakaran said on Thursday. Speaking at a meeting of the District Welfare Co-ordination Committee …
In Sub-Saharan Africa, 40% of children under five years in age are chronically undernourished. As new investments and attention galvanize action on African agriculture to reduce hunger, there is an urgent need for metrics that monitor agricultural progress beyond calories produced per capita and address nutritional diversity essential for human …
The UPA 2 government has completed its first two years in office. The Food Security Bill continues to elude consensus. Every now and then there is a new announcement that a comprehensive bill is round the corner. In the meantime, foodgrain rots and hunger remains unabated. Uncertainty surrounds even the …
Press report of the meeting held on June 14th at Sr.Helen hall, Stella Maris college following lectures by Dr. Veena Shatrugna, National Adviser on Nutrition to the Supreme Court Commissioner on Food Security and Dr.Suresh, Supreme Court appointed Adviser for Tamil Nadu to the Supreme Court commissioner on Food Security.
Flouting court orders, the Yeddyurappa government is serving packaged food to kids, finds Imran Khan Stomachs get filled but in the long run, malnutrition takes its toll on the kids FOR THE present dispensation in Karnataka, the beleaguered BS Yeddyurappa government, which survives crisis after crisis by the skin of …
National Nutrition Month begins today (03). The Health Ministry said that the National Programme would be held in Nuwara Eliya, as the district had recorded the highest ratios of low birth weight, maternal mortality rate and stunting rate in the country. The spokesman for the Health Ministry said on Thursday …
India is confronted with an agrarian crisis and mass hunger, despite producing enough food to feed itself. This paper argues that the country needs urgent action to protect the universal right to food, prioritize land reforms, and sustainably revive agrarian productivity.
