François Jean, a leading figure in Doctors Without Borders and someone who had worked in Ethiopia for long, once wrote that famine was used by the government in Addis Ababa as “a trump card to weaken opposition movements and control populations”. Like Soviet Russia after the Bolshevik revolution and like …
An inter-ministerial team, led by central agriculture joint secretary Pankaj Kumar, is currently touring Mizoram's countryside to study the ground reality of the bamboo flowering-caused famine. The team officials, after meeting farmers at Phulpui and Sateek villages near here yesterday, left for Kolasib district today. As many as 90 families …
The monetary value of crops gnawed away by rodents last year has been estimated as Rs 67,201.98 lakhs, the Assembly was informed today. The rodent population proliferated as a result of gregarious bamboo flowering (Mautam). In his reply to Congress member R Lalzirliana, Disaster Management and Rehabilitation Minister K Sangthuama …
A child clings to its mother's beads in this file picture of a famine-hit Ethiopian village. The road from Harar runs for more than 600 miles east towards the border with Somalia, penetrating deep into the desiccated badlands of the Ogaden desert, the dusty heart of Ethiopia's war-torn Somali regional …
The Democratic Left Alliance on Sunday called on the government to take immediate and effective steps to contain the runaway prices of essential commodities and warned that otherwise the country would face a full-blown famine. The central steering committee of the alliance at a meeting said that when many people …
Bamboo clusters in Khagrachhari are flowering and fruiting in a massive scale, giving an ominous sign of food crisis in the hills. Elders said flowering and fruiting of bamboo takes place at an interval of 40 to 50 years. The fruits draw rats in a massive scale, which also eat …
India and the world population has doubled or tripled since the World War II. The world and India produces seven times more food than 60 or more years ago when many nations were in a shambles and farms were marred by mines and other hazardous chemicals in the aftermath of …
Over one lakh families in Mizoram have been affected by the ongoing shortage of food due to the gregarious bamboo flowering which has triggered a famine like situation in the State. According to official records submitted by Deputy Commissioners of all the eight districts, rural people depending on cultivation have …
