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 …
Hillary Rodham Clinton For one billion people around the world, the daily effort to grow, buy or sell food is the defining struggle of their lives. This matters to them, and to all of us. Consider the daily life of the world
BHUBANESWAR: Despite all pro-poor policies and much-hyped food programmes of the State Government, Orissa continues to languish at the bottom rung of the hunger parameters. The State stood 66th along with countries like Nigeria and Kenya in the Global Hunger Index-2008 measured by the International Food Policy Research Institute. This …
Borlaug contributed to the agriculture of many countries by M. S. Swaminathan Norman Borlaug I had the privilege of knowing and working with Norman Borlaug
The effects of climate change could lead to as much as a 5% drop in the GDP of countries in South Asia and Africa, including India, a World Bank report warned on Sunday. The report said the effects of a 2-degree Celsius rise in temperature due to global warming could …
United Nations: With over 1 billion people going to bed hungry, the United Nations has warned that the hunger index is rising and appealed to governments and civil societies to
RAJKUMARI KUNWAR, 70 years old, lay inert on her cot when a few people entered her small hut in Rajharakharmi village on July 23. They could count the ribs on her frail body. The pots and pans lying around were covered in dust. An aluminium glass lay toppled by her …
As Number Of Starving People Hits All-Time High, Food Aid Is At 20-Yr Low: UN London: Food aid is at a 20-year low despite the number of critically hungry people soaring this year to its highest level ever, the UN relief agency said on Wednesday. The number of hungry people …
Rich nations are diverting aid from other causes to pay to help poor countries fight the growing impact of climate change, according to this Oxfam report released on 16th Sept 09. In 2000, at the UN Millennium Summit, the international community agreed a historic set of goals aimed at freeing …
Norman Borlaug, the father of the "Green Revolution" who died on Saturday in Texas aged 95, is widely credited with saving more than a billion lives by breeding wheat, rice and other crops that brought agricultural self-sufficiency to developing countries around the world. Borlaug was one of only five people …
Sept.09 : Finally there is acknowledgement on the part of the government that the country is indeed facing a serious drought and a crisis in food availability. For months we were treated to the Met department statements predicting some shortfall in the rainfall, nowhere close to the calamitous situation that …
ANAND S.T. DAS Aug. 31: The month of August was a pervasive season of deaths across Bihar. As many as 164 officially counted deaths in this single month caused by floods, outbreak of diseases, starvation and a still continuing strike by government doctors seem to pale the memories of massacres …
BHUBANESWAR: The inconsistent monsoon seems to have clouded the food security issue of the common man. The country is going to see a 10 million tonne fall in rice output this kharif season with Orissa being a significant contributor to reduced productivity. The situation in Orissa is going to be …
Ananya Dutta Residents of the Sunderbans islands are forced to live on the embankments or on temporary huts put up on stilts. File Photo: Sushanta Patronobish The Hindu Residents of the Sunderbans islands are forced to live on the embankments or on temporary huts put up on stilts. File Photo: …
Zoya Hasan The time has come for a comprehensive right-to-food law to tackle the deprivation and food insecurity that haunts India. Over the last decade or so, a series of developments have drawn attention to the problem of food security. These are the persistence of hunger in many parts of …
The draft of the National Food Security Act is going to be presented before Parliament in the winter session. This was one of the main promises made by the Indian National Congress in its manifesto for the Lok Sabha elections, 2009. As per the proposed Act, the most vulnerable sections …
Samba: Even as Agriculture Minister Ghulam Hassan Mir has accepted that the farm sector had suffered a loss of more than Rs 406 crore due to the failed monsoon, farmers of Samba district have urged the government to declare the region as drought-hit.
New Delhi: Observing that the country was facing a "difficult situation" following delayed and deficient rainfall, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Saturday that the Centre has adequate foodgrains and would not hesitate to take strong measures and intervene in the market if the need arose. "Agricultural operations have been …
