India and Food security
- Capital:
New Delhi - Population:
1173108018 - Size:
3287590.0 Km2
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- Prioritising nutrition in order to achieve the MDGs in India
- V. Kumar / Young Lives, 2012
- Malnutrition causes long-term damage to children’s development, with huge social and economic costs. It affects not only children’s physical development but also their cognitive development, so reducing future productivity...
- Development support program for stone quarry affected communities in West-Bengal and Jarkhand, Pilot Project 2010-2012, Evaluation Report
- R. Kumar 2012
- The project is implemented particularly for the benefit of those Santhal communities who are working in stone quarry and crusher units of Jharkhand and West Bengal. The major focus areas of the project are occupational Safety, Health,...
- Where the rain falls: climate change, food and livelihood security, and migration
- K. Warner / United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security, 2012
- This comparative study highlights that rainfall variability and food insecurity are key drivers for human mobility. The empirical research is based on eight country case studies, including a 1,300 household survey and participatory re...
- Social protection for food security: A report by the High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition
- 2012
- Social protection has risen rapidly up the development policy agenda in the last decade. There is also a clear trend to making social protection, as well as food security, ‘rights-based’ rather than ‘discretionary’...
- Empowering Small Farmers in India through Organic Agriculture and Biodiversity Conservation
- A. M. Nicolaysen / Department of Anthropology, University of Connecticut, 2012
- This PhD dissertation from University of Connecticut investigates how local farming organizations enable and empower small farmers to become independent and selfsufficient. The study contributes to a growing understanding among small ...
- Practical and evidence-based policy actions to achieve food security in the context of climate change
- J. Beddington (ed); M. Asaduzzaman (ed); M. Clark (ed) / Climate Change Agriculture Food Security, 2012
- This report, released by the Commission on Sustainable Agriculture and Climate Change, identifies a set of clear actions to be undertaken by key stakeholders to achieve food security in the context of climate change. It reasons that w...
- Rising food crisis and financial crisis in India: impact on women and children and ways of tackling the problem
- 2012
- The objective of the study is to examine the impact of rising food prices and financial crisis on the impact of women and children in India. It identifies the pathways for dealing with the effects of these two crisis on households par...
- Community-based vulnerability and capacity assessment of Himalayan livelihoods, enhancing climate change resilience.
- International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, 2012
- This study, published by the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, investigates how climate and socio-economic change is affecting the livelihoods of the mountain peoples of the Himalayas. Using the community-based...
- Food security and gender insights
- S. Turrall (ed) / Knowledge Services, IDS, 2012
- This issue of insights shows how development policy and practice can potentially improve food security while supporting women’s empowerment. They can focus on women’s critical role as food producers, consum...
- Will India be compelled to import dairy products in the near future?
- V.P. Gandhi; Z. Zhou / AgEcon Search, 2010
- With a large population and recent growth in consumer income, India’s demand for food has increased. This study examines the demand for livestock products by Indian consumers, and discusses its implications. The stu...
- Right to Food Campaign, New Delhi
- Right to food campaign, India
- General Information Service Terminal - National Informatics Centre, India (GISTNIC)
- Indian host for databases and WWW sites. Data hosted includes: (a) India Population Census 1991 Database: provides the Primary Census Abstract of about 30 demographic parameters such as total/rural/urban populations with break up of male, female, SC/ST, literate, persons below 7 years, workers in various categories as agriculture, mining, household, industry, etc. This information is available...
- International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)
- Research centre concentrating on the crop improvement and farming systems for sorghum, millet, chickpea, pigeonpea and groundnut: acts as a world repository for the genetic resources of these crops. Databases include: (a) SATRCIS: bibliographical database on semi-arid tropical crops (b) Database on groundnut alfatoxin problems (available on diskette) (c) Library
