India and Food security
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- Coping with rising food prices in Asia
- Ganesh Thapa; Raghav Gaiha; Katsushi Imai / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2009
- Global food prices are at the highest levels in history and it is likely that prices will remain high for several years. Governments, donors and international agencies must act to minimise the impact of inflation and food shortages, w...
- The importance of uncultivated plants in India and Bangladesh
- F. Mazhar; D. Buckles; V.P. Satheesh; F. Akhter / International Development Research Centre, 2007
- Based on a series of studies and practical experiments undertaken over several years in the drylands of Medak district in Andhra Pradesh (South India) and in the flood-plains of Tangail district in Bangladesh, this slim volume tells u...
- Can sustainable agriculture help lift Indian farmers out of poverty?
- Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH, 2008
- Millions of farmers in remote rural areas of India struggle to feed themselves and their families, while the resources on which they depend are deteriorating daily. This book shows how sustainable agriculture can help India's farmers ...
- Developing value chains for neglected and underutilised species
- M. Will / Bioversity International, 2008
- Use of neglected and underutilised species (NUS) can play an important role in improving food security, conserving biodiversity and generating income and employment. Value chain development (VCD) can be a useful tool for realising the...
- Is a radical shift in power relations the real solution to the food crisis?
- GRAIN, 2008
- The current food crisis is focusing attention on the way food reaches some of the most disadvantaged people in the world. In this edition of GRAIN's Seedling magazine, a collection of articles highlight the less discussed aspects of t...
- Tackling child malnourishment in India: an analysis of inter-regional disparities
- K. R. G. Nair / Right to Food Campaign, New Delhi, 2007
- In spite of recent economic growth, India maintains one of the highest proportions of undernourished children in the world, partly owing to the highly uneven nature of its development. This paper provides a detailed analysis of inter-...
- Food security in India: the case for an integrated approach
- A. Mukherjee / United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, 2008
- This paper examines the debate which surrounds the uni-sectoral versus inter-sectoral, or integrated, approach as a strategy for food security and poverty alleviation. Looking at the issues surrounding the debate through a ...
- Exploring food insecurity in India through the eyes of those who suffer it
- A. Mukherjee / United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, 2007
- This paper examines food insecurity within contemporary India at the micro level. It focuses on the temporal dimension of food insecurity in terms of seasonality and inter-month variations in food consumed, and in the variety, palate ...
- Is the Indian government delivering the right to adequate food?
- FoodFirst Information and Action Network, 2008
- India has an obligation under the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) to guarantee the right to be free from hunger and the right to adequate food. But how successfully has the State been in achiev...
- What approaches can help rehabilitate degraded land?
- New Agriculturalist, 2008
- Across vast areas of the world, human activity has degraded once fertile and productive land. Deforestation, overgrazing, continuous farming and poor irrigation practices have affected almost 2 billion hectares worldwide, threatening ...
- 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
