India and Food security
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- How can the MDG in hunger be achieved?: issues of food security in Asia
- G. Gill; J. Farrington; E. Anderson; C. Luttrell; T. Conway; N.C. Saxena; R. Slater / Overseas Development Institute, 2003
- This paper provides an overview of food security issues in relation to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in Bangladesh, India, Nepal, China, Indonesia, Cambodia and Vietnam. It identifies the key issues relating to food s...
- Widening non-farm employment opportunities in Madhya Pradesh
- Ulrich Kleih; Richa Som; Yogesh Kumar / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004
- Rural non-farm employment (RNFE) has an increasing role to play in areas where populations are rising and natural resources are being depleted. While it is generally agreed that a dynamic agricultural sector is important for the devel...
- Lessons to counter gender-blind drylands management
- Gender and Development, FAO Sustainable Dimensions, 2003
- With an estimated 40 percent of people in Africa, South America and Asia living in drylands, land degradation poses a significant threat to food security and survival. This report looks at the relationship between gender and dryland m...
- Community participation for the improvement of food aid targeting in India
- D. Bhattacharyya / Eldis Document Store, 2003
- This paper presents an alternative, participatory approach to the identification of food insecure households at the community level. This approach is introduced as a response to the different food assistance schemes currently implemen...
- Trouble in the air for food production as urban pollution hits rural development
- Fiona Marshall; Mike Ashmore / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
- Concern over air pollution has traditionally been focused on urban situations. Fresh evidence from a study by an Imperial College research team, the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) and research partners ...
- Why the UK government should end its support for an investment agreement at the WTO Ministerial Conference
- ActionAid International, 2003
- This paper presents Actionaids response to the issues surroundings the Cancun Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), to be held in September 2003. ActionAid is concerned that an investment agreement negot...
- Extension of government programmes vital to maintain food security
- P. Bhargava / Institute of Development Studies Jaipur, India, 2002
- This paper studies two aspects of food security in Rajasthan availability and access to food for households. The government ensures food security at the household level in two ways: through the Public Distribution System (PDS) and thr...
- Systematic Client Consultation in Development: The Case of Food Policy Research in Ghana, India, Kenya, and Mali
- S.C. Babu; L.R. Brown; B. McClafferty / International Food Policy Research Institute, 1998
- Successful food policy implementation is preceded by a defined policymaking process drawing from a sound information base. Yet too often the knowledge generated through food policy research does not become part of the local body of in...
- Indian experience on household food and nutrition security
- N.P. Nawani / Gender and Food Security, FAO, 1994
- Covers the production, availability and consumption of cereals, which are known to contribute around 70 percent of the energy and protein requirement and which happen to be the first objective to be attained by a poor household. The p...
- 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
