India and Food security
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- From seed to plate: valuing local food systems
- Michel Pimbert / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
- Most of the world’s food is grown and processed by small-scale farmers, pastoralists and fisherfolk. Many people depend on these activities for incomes, including food producers, processors, retailers and consumers. Howevre, deve...
- Speeches by Southern leaders on the topic of hunger
- South Centre, 2005
- This issue of the South Bulletin focuses on Hunger, with contributions from various Southern leaders including speeches from President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil, President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela and President...
- Differing outcomes of food aid in Africa and Asia
- C. del Ninno; P. A Dorosh; K. Subarao / World Bank, 2005
- This paper analyses the outcomes of food aid and food security in India, Bangladesh, Ethiopia, and Zambia. The research shows that there are large differences in the effectiveness of food aid in reducing long term dependence on food a...
- Right-to-food violations, India
- FIAN Norway, 2005
- This advocacy group document confirms the violation of human rights in Uttar Pradesh and Uttaranchal, India. It specifically addresses abuses with regard to the right to adequate food. The report is based on information provide...
- Government of India violates community rights to food and water
- A. Mankame; S. Pabst; R. Ramgiri / FoodFirst Information and Action Network, 2004
- This report establishes that the Government of India is failing to respect, protect and fulfil its peoples’ right to adequate food and water even though it has signed and ratified the International Covenant on Economic, Social an...
- The role of ICTs in improving food security
- OneWorld.net, 2005
- This edition of Mainstreaming ICTs – Achieving the MDGs focuses on food security in India. A collection of articles are featured, looking at issues such as the extent of the agrarian emergency in Andhra Pradesh; the International...
- How do you operationalise the right to food at State level: Brazil, Canada, India, South Africa, Uganda?
- Intergovernmental Working Group for the Elaboration of a Set of Voluntary Guidelines to Support the , 2004
- This paper attempts to explore the question of how the human right to adequate food can be implemented at the country level. It is based on case studies on implementing the right to food in five countries and a meeting, held from 16-1...
- The shortcomings of the Food for Work programme in Andhra Pradesh, India
- P. Deshingkar; C. Johnson / Overseas Development Institute, 2003
- This paper discusses the shortcomings of the Food for Work programme in Andhra Pradesh to provide employment to drought-affected poor people. It shows how design faults, administrative mismanagement and local politics created conditio...
- How are rural livelihoods affected by linkages into the international economy?
- C. Wilson / Overseas Development Institute, 2004
- This paper examines the factors impacting on livelihoods in rural India. In particular it investigates the effect of structural changes associated with increased linkages into the external economy, on villagers' levels of poverty. ...
- Developing legal frameworks for developing country needs: IPRs and food security
- P. Cullet / International Environmental Law Research Centre, 2003
- This paper examines the implications of intellectual property rights (IPRs) on food security and the agricultural sector. India is used as a case study. It argues that significant attention should be given to the development of...
- 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
