India and Food security
- Capital:
New Delhi - Population:
1173108018 - Size:
3287590.0 Km2
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- Food assistance and HIV: a step-by-step guide to integrated programming
- Academy for Educational Development, USA, 2007
- This guide from the FANTA project outlines key steps for integrating food assistance and nutrition into HIV programmes. It identifies key challenges to integrated HIV programming: inadequate understanding of how to address the overlap...
- Women, food security and nutrition in South Asia
- Nira Ramachandran / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
- Food production has increased across South Asia, both for local consumption and for export. However, many women and children face increasing levels of malnutrition and food insecurity. Empowering women is central to ensuring food and ...
- Community adaptive response and resilience to climate change
- M. Rondon / International Development Research Centre, 2005
- In 2005, IDRC provided CA $1,000,000 to the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) to support a four-year research collaboration with TERI of India. These institutes will study the adaptation of agricultural commun...
- Breaking down the complexity of vulnerability into manageable components with communities to reduce their exposure to hazards and shocks
- E. Chiwaka; R. Yates / ActionAid International, 2004
- This guide is developed to assist field workers and communities to analyse people’s vulnerability, draw action plans, mobilise resources and enact appropriate policies, laws and strategies to reduce their vulnerability to disast...
- The relationship between public works programmes and food insecurity
- N. Ghosh; B. Guha-Khasnobis / World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2006
- This paper reviews the strategies and instruments in India that address household food insecurity. The paper also examines how far the existing public works programmes (PWP) target the households that are likely to be food insecure. I...
- Managing physical and spatial dimensions of a city
- O. Argenti; C. Marocchino / Agricultural Support Systems Division, FAO, 2005
- This guide describes the principal activities of food supply and distribution systems (FSDSs) and suggests planning criteria for managing the physical and spatial dimensions of a city in order to improve the quantity, quality, variety...
- Corruption challenges Indian’s right to food
- G. Cheriyan / World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2006
- If production of food grains in India is ample, then why does India account for a third of the world’s hungry? This paper reviews initiatives by the Government of India to provide food security to its citizens, and it explores wh...
- Distributing food in India and China: learning from experience
- Zhang Yue Zhou; Guanghua Wan / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
- Many governments use public distribution systems to make food available at reasonable rates and guarantee food security for their citizens. The experiences of India and China offer insights for all developing countries. The...
- Trends in cereal consumption in India and the likely impacts on food security
- S. Mittal / Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, 2006
- Over the past two decades, even the poor in India have shifted their consumption away from cereals towards other foods. What are the implications of this for India’s future food security? This study reviews trends in per capita c...
- Sharing lessons on national systems of food distribution
- Z. Zhang-Yue; W. Guanghua 2006
- What are the differences between the Public Distribution Systems (PDS) of foodgrains in India and China? This paper compares these two systems and how they have helped to improve national food security, food security of the general pu...
- 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
