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. …
BY BIRAJ PATNAIK Food security, but not nutrition? We live in strange times. Never before has humanity produced as much food as it has in the last few years and yet, never before have so many people gone hungry. It is precisely this conundrum that is driving the debate on …
As govt tries to work out a pragmatic balance between economic imperatives and political compulsions of enacting a national food security legislation, RAVISH TIWARI takes stock of its problems THE IDEA The right to food finds mention in the national constitution of about 22 countries across the globe (see chart) …
Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has said that the drive for ending malnutrition in the state should be converted into a mass movement with the cooperation of society. He said that the curse of malnutrition intrigues him the most. Chouhan was addressing a review meeting of Woman and Child Development …
HARDLY a week goes by without a food brand announcing a health initiative as they seek to position themselves as a force for good in the fight against obesity. Last week, for example, PepsiCo UK unveiled its inaugural Health Report, a 10-year strategy intended to make its brands, which include …
Rapid urbanisation in developing countries intensifies the challenges of making sufficient food available for the increasing urban population, and managing the related waste flow. Unlike in rural communities, there is usually little or no return of food biomass and related nutrients into the food production process. Most waste ends up …
Right to Food campaign has now adopted, moving beyond the entitlement criteria to restructuring agriculture policies in such a way that it does not compromise on food security, livelihood security and thereby the right to food. A set of slides under the title -- Food Security: What the Government Says …
The objective of the study was to analyze the macronutrient, micronutrient, food intake pattern, anthropometry, and lipid profile of urban Asian Indian adolescents and young adults and compare it with the nutrient profile of rural Asian Indian and American adolescents.
Increasing prevalence of childhood obesity calls for comprehensive and cost-effective educative measures in developing countries such as India. School-based educative programmes greatly influence children's behaviour towards healthy living. We aimed to evaluate the impact of a school-based health and nutritional education programme on knowledge and behaviour of urban Asian Indian …
The proposed Food Security Bill should adopt a three-pronged strategy that constitutes a Universal Public Distribution System for all, low-cost foodgrains to the needy, and convergence in the delivery of nutrition safety net programmes. In his latest budget speech, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee announced:
We examine whether access to aspects of social infrastructure, such as toilet facilities, drinking water on the premises and clean cooking fuels, leads to a decline in the incidence of undernutrition among women, which remains quite high in India. The analysis, based on the National Family Health Survey-3 (2005-06) unit-level …
As the Romanian Government considers introducing a far-reaching fast food tax that covers both sweet and savoury snacks, experts warn of potential stumbling blocks. Ed Holt reports.
Will coupons work better than commodities? The well-intentioned food security Bill, cleared by the empowered group of ministers (EGoM) and now awaiting Cabinet approval, continues to raise issues that have not been fully resolved. Apart from the fact that it falls short of the Congress party
Millets are small grained, annual, warm weather cereals that includes 8000 species within 600 genera, of which only 35 species comprising 20 genera have been domesticated. Finger millet is grown as an important food crop in many developing countries of the tropical region; mainly in Africa and Asia. It is …
“For humans, the principal source of selenium is meat, and in Mexico it is not included in daily meals, as a consequence of poverty. Moreover, abattoir animals are deficient in this element. For this reason our research team considers that Mexican people probably suffer from a chronic Se deficiency,” said …
The United Progressive Alliance government will provide wheat and rice to below poverty line people at Rs 3 a kg under the proposed Food Security Act only till it remains in power at the Centre. Accordingly, the empowered group of ministers chaired by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee has decided that …
Europe's food safety watchdog on 25 February issued a scientific mass-verdict on more than 400 so-called health claims, the promises that food producers make on their labels and in advertisements, rejecting purported health benefits of a raft of substances. The decisions are the latest installment in a gargantuan and controversial …
Saubhadro Chatterji / New Delhi March 04, 2010, 0:50 IST Expanding its commitment to provide subsidised foodgrain to the poor, the Manmohan Singh government is looking at a host of social sector initiatives along with its soon-to-be-unveiled Food Security Bill. While some of the measures are aimed to revamp the …
