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 …
Unimpressed by the progress made under the well-known KBK assistance plan, where over Rs 1,600 crore has been spent over the last decade, a concerned Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has asked the Planning Commission to immediately carry out a fresh time-bound re-evaluation of the programme with special focus on the …
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 …
SHRIYA MOHAN uncovers shocking tales of tribals battling hunger and starvation in the heartlands of Madhya Pradesh TODAY MAUSAM will not eat. There is just enough wheat flour left for three rotis but she stretches the dough thin to make four. She grinds a chutney of raw green chillies with …
Mandi Ahmedgarh: Prem Kumar Aggarwal, district governor, Rotary International (District 3090), has called upon all NGOs to launch a coordinated move to save infants and children who were dying due to inadequate health facilities, water-borne diseases, starvation and illiteracy. He also highlighted the need for the water management and environment …
New Delhi: Planning Commission has asked the ministry for women and child development (WCD) to consider a paradigm policy shift and focus on children between 0-2 years of age as against the current practice of addressing the nutritional concerns of children from 6 months to 5 years through ICDS programme. …
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:
Akshaya Kumar Sahoo A SACK OF sorrow has settled on their shaky slim shoulders at an age when they should be spinning around with arms out in their yard. A spurt of desolation has imprisoned them in their murky home when they could be fooling about with their friends in …
The Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI) here, in association with the M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF), Chennai, and other organisations, have launched an initiative to end chronic hunger in the Kalahandi-Bolangir-Koraput (KBK) regions of Orissa by 2015. The initiative is part of an integrated approach to achieve Millennium Development …
Noted agriculture scientist and Rajya Sabha member M S Swaminathan on Thursday called for a comprehensive plan to ensure food security in the coming years, in the wake of climate change and shrinking agricultural sector. In his address at the diamond jubilee lecture series at the Central Food Technological Research …
Hugh Macleod Millions of Yemenis are starving while the international community focuses on security issues and tackling Al Qaeda, according to the United Nations. Vital deliveries of food deliveries and assistance is being cut because of a near-total absence of funding. Nearly one in three Yemenis, more than seven million …
Akshaya Kumar Sahoo Jhintu Bariha and his family members were victims of chronic hunger. A migrant labourer, illiterate Jhintu never availed of the social security measures -- either job at the door step or government supplied food -- until he lost two of his three children. ON SEPTEMBER 6 and …
CHENNAI: Top scientists and policymakers from leading national and international institutes on Wednesday issued a declaration calling on all nations to prioritise conservation of the earth
Africa missed out on the scientific breakthroughs that revolutionized agriculture in Asia. However, with locally developed and locally relevant technologies, a built-up human and institutional capacity, and supportive national policy and leadership, an African Green Revolution can be a reality.
Eighty-year-old Champo Bariha, a resident of Chabripali village in the tribal district of Balangir, gets Rs 200 a month as old age pension and 25 kg subsidized rice that below poverty line (bpl) families are allocated. It was too little for his family of seven to survive on. Champo’s wife, …
J. Venkatesan NEW DELHI: Expressing serious concern over the increasing incidents of suicide by farmers due to starvation, poverty and other reasons, the Supreme Court on Monday asked the Centre to come out with mirco-level steps to prevent such suicides across the country, particularly in Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Karnataka …
Aid Pours In As Up To 500,000 Feared Dead Washington/Port-au-Prince: Rescue teams, doctors and soldiers from around the world raced against the clock to reach Haiti with food, water and medicines, as it became increasingly clear that the magnitude 7 earthquake which reduced the Caribbean country to rubble on Tuesday …
P.C. Alexander DURING THE last three years, two subjects have been consuming the attention of the world community almost to the exclusion of other equally important subjects. One is the financial crisis, which had threatened to lead to a meltdown of the global economy, and the other is the threat …
THE 97TH Indian Science Congress is in session at Thiruvananthapuram (January 3 to 7, 2010), the capital of the state of Kerala. For me, every session of the Congress is a new experience; an experience of learning and rededication to the cause propounded by the country's first Prime Minister, Pandit …
