Tag: Food Security

The unsung architects of food security: India’s rural women demand recognition

The first struggle for every woman, before she can raise her voice in society or resist in public spheres, begins at home. Over the past few years, marginalized communities—be...

Key Scheme For Migrants’ Food Security Could Stumble For Lack Of Data

New Delhi: The ‘One Nation, One Ration Card’ programme to be launched in June 2020 aims to provide subsidised food to India’s 450 million itinerant workers anywhere in the country. To implement it, some basic conditions must be met--states must have accurate migrant numbers, currently not available, and thousands of fair price shops would need electronic point-of-sale (PoS) machines for flawless biometric authentication of a beneficiary’s identity, experts said.

What India could learn from Ethiopia about food security

Despite India’s fast economic growth and poverty reduction over...

World hunger is increasing thanks to wars and climate change

Around the globe, about 815 million people – 11...

Famines in the 21st century? It’s not for lack of food

Famine killed nearly 75 million people in the 20th...

Food security looks very different depending on where you are sitting

In 1974, the World Food Conference declared that: “Every...

Modi’s Regurgitating Old Sops, Nothing New: Universal Maternity Entitlement

Extracted from a statement by Rozi Roti Adhikar, Rajasthan...

असमर्थ दलित व्यक्ति की भूख से मौत, आधार कार्ड ना होने के कारण दलित परिवार को नहीं मिला अनाज

स्थानीय दुकान से अनाज लेने में असमर्थ दलित युवक ने भूख...

Hungry heart

March 19, 2007To, The honourable Supreme Court of India,Subject: Non-implementation...

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