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. …
Zoe Williams As the world is hit by a food crisis, the markets see nothing immoral in skimming off a profit. The price of cheddar is going to go up by 10 per cent over the next six months. This is quite a rare food story, now, in terms of …
Aarti Dhar NEW DELHI: The Union Women and Child Development Ministry will map the high-risk and vulnerable districts to strengthen nutrition surveillance. It will also set up a working group for surveillance in health and nutrition at the Central level under the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) and the Integrated …
INDIA BECAME independent soon after the Great Bengal Famine that claimed two million lives. An independent and free India reclaimed her food sovereignty and food security. The Harijan, a newspaper published by Mahatma Gandhi and banned from 1942 to 1946, was full of articles written by Gandhi during 1946-1947 on …
ITH spiralling food price inflation and sluggish employment growth in both rural and urban areas, the spectre of hunger and nutritional deprivation looms large for millions of households. While the battle lines are sharply drawn between those who pin their hopes of a rapid growth acceleration through a continuing bold …
Delhi with a malnutrition rate of 47% among the urban poor and an overall rate of 35% in the city, is much worse than even Sub-Sahara at 33%, stated experts at a consultation on
Shivpuri: Kartar Adivasi, a one-year-old, weighed just 6.342 kg when he was admitted to the nutritional rehabilitation centre (NRC) at Narwar in Madhya Pradesh. Born to Banwari and Binia of village Kiranpura (Barkhadi), the child was kept at the NRC for 14 days and then under followup care at his …
Seasonal variations and effects of ambient air pollutants on palak (Beta vulgaris L. var. Allgreen) plants were investigated with respect to root, shoot length, number of leaves plant-1, leaf area and root and shoot biomass at a suburban site situated in dry tropical area of India, experiencing elevated levels of …
Recent report on the status of food and welfare schemes that are being monitored by the Supreme Court of India under the Right to Food case (no. 196 of 2001). It shows what is missing, what is moving & what has to be done and where in various state welfare …
This paper makes a case for gender equity in the agricultural R&D; system. It reviews the evidence on exactly why it is important to pay attention to gender issues in agriculture and why it is necessary to recognize women
Banana serves as an ideal and low cost food source for developing countries where most of the population rely mostly on bananas for food. Banana plant parts are useful as insecticide, antioxidant, colour absorber, in preparation of various functional foods, wine, alcohol, biogas, cattle feed etc. This review discusses usefulness …
The United Progressive Alliance government has drafted a showpiece bill to guarantee food for each and every poor person in India. But the government is yet to define who is poor. After objections from within and outside the government, the Empowered Group of Ministers (egom) that drafted the National Food …
The main objectives of the evaluation study were to assess the coverage of children under CMDM, availability of infrastructure for implementation of CMDM, improvement in attendance, retention and nutritional status of children and to assess the extent to which CMDM has succeeded in achieving the objectives. The study tried to …
A party is on. A slim woman looks wistfully at a platter of rice but decides to have just a spoonful. Enter a plump woman who asks her to have more; she declines. “We know why you cannot eat rice,” hints the television commercial as it shows the plump woman’s …
Five years after I started living in Vidarbha, I coined my first adage about the region’s cooking: one can’t add too much sugar to tea or chilly to curries. And I was not wrong. There are usually two types of vegetable preparations—mokli bhaji or fried vegetables and rassa bhaji or …
The real purpose of the draft Food Security Bill is to replace a universal system of public food distribution with a targeted system. At a migrant community slum in Hyderabad. In the targeted system, only those defined as poor by State governments will have access to publicly distributed foodgrains. But, …
Interview with Jean Dreze, development economist. Jean Dreze is a development economist, originally from Belgium but settled in India since 1979. He became an Indian citizen in 2002. Dreze did his PhD in economics at the Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi, and has since worked on several issues like hunger, …
INFANTS and children below two years and in particular infants below six months should be included as a vulnerable group in the Food Security Act, according to a group of civil society organisations. The group urged UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to allocate budgetary resources of …
It was an election promise of the Congress Party. Then, when the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance came back to power, it was part of its 100-day agenda. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh even declared,
