Budget 2017-18 expectations: ensure food security, minimise rural distress
This year’s budget must focus on preventing farmer suicides, strengthening crop insurance scheme and guaranteeing rural employment
Why are tea plantation workers dying of hunger?
Lack of oversight by state governments, along with low wages and tough working conditions, is causing starvation deaths, says a fact finding team
Who said what in Parliament on food security Bill
Parliamentarians object to provisions in proposed legislation
Food Security Bill on anvil, how does it impact us?
The central government is expected to announce by Thursday an ordinance to implement the Food Security Bill, which is currently pending the …
India-US reach agreement on WTO
Commerce minister Nirmala Sitharaman says US now supports India’s concerns on food security
A compromised consensus
Two new provisions in land acquisition bill promise to protect farmers. Are they foolproof?
44 per cent of India's districts face rain deficit
Major food-producing states like Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Maharashtra and Punjab are the worst affected
Decade-old FAO guidelines still the way ahead for food security, says report
No consensus at forums like WTO dangerous for international food security, it adds
Food security Bill introduced in Lok Sabha
Tamil Nadu MP dubs it food “insecurity” Bill
A token gesture for food security
Activists say the budget lays bare governmentÔÇÖs intentions over food security bill
Parties steal Congress show
BJP-ruled Chhattisgarh enacts its own food security law, non-Congress states to follow
What states stand to gain from food security law
An estimate of the population that will benefit from the food programme
Prices rise, not hunger
People prefer to eat less nutritious food than go hungry, says FAO
Public Deprived System
The country’s 76 million poor have been denied the right to claim subsidised foodgrain under public distribution system
India gains support for its stand against WTO at food security meet in Rome
India presents its case on potential damage posed by WTO’s trade facilitation agreement; civil society groups support India
Centre clears ordinance on food security
The ordinance, if signed by the President, will come into immediate effect
Towards food security: perspectives from three continents
The Food Insecurity Report 2014, released by the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) last week, has revealed that one …
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