Hidden cost of global food, land use at $12 trillion: Report

This is expected to rise to more than $16 trillion a year by 2050, finds a report by Food and Land use Coalition 

Migration for work is making matters worse for poor tribals

As people leave their villages, they also leave behind the support system of government programmes

Jostling for jhuggi land

The Shakur Basti eviction drive calls for a thorough review of the railways’ mandate, politics of urban land and housing of urban poor

World Bank report paints contrasting picture of African economy

While poverty may be lower than what current estimates suggest, the number of people living in extreme poverty has increased since 1990

The saga of the big brother in a little village

FROM POVERTY TO PLENTY: THE STORY OF RALEGAN SIDDHI Ganesh and Vasudha Pangare Publisher: INTACH, New Delhi Price: Rs 85

The land rush

STRUGGLE FOR LAND AND THE FATE OF THE FORESTS Edited by Marcus Colchester and Larry Lohmann Publisher: The World Rainforest Movement, Malaysia, …

Bum deal at the summit

A lot of sound and fury signifying nothing: that was the Social Development battlefield at Copenhagen

What a mess

Should the people of South Africa be denied medicines because they are too poor to pay for them?

Gender bender

ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY IN INDIA: CASES, MATERIALS AND STATUTES By Shyam Divan and Armin Rosencranz •Second edition • Published …

"An epidemic of non-communication"

David Miller is an expert in psychosocial management of hiv/aids. He has worked in developing countries since 1986 and is currently the Country …

Slum voices

BOOK>> TRICKSTER CITY, WRITINGS FROM THE UNDERBELLY OF A METROPOLIS • translated by Shveta Sarda • Penguin • Rs 499

Spreading message

Nepal's poor carry it off

As the Himalayan country's forestry scheme for the poor reaps rich dividends, its government entrusts more degraded areas to the underprivileged. …

Raghuvansh Prasad, minister for rural development, on NREGA

Use technology to make PDS transparent, efficient: Wadhwa committee

Supreme Court-appointed panel recommends phasing out private dealers from supply chain and doing away with above poverty line list

Tackling poverty

INDIA: REDUCING POVERTY, ACCELERATING DEVELOPMENT, A WORLD BANK COUNTRY STUDY·Oxford University Press·New Delhi·260 pages

Children don’t even have energy to cry: Gaza Strip stares at famine as Israel blocks food access

Malnutrition in northern Gaza rose from 0.8% of children under 5 years before the conflict began to over 16% at present

Education is key to freeing the girl child from deeply entrenched social barriers

NCRB data shows 33 girls forced into child marriage every day in 2021

COVID-19 pushed 119-124 million into poverty: World Bank updates estimates

The number of pandemic-induced new poor is forecast to rise to 143-163 million in 2021

Good health, reduction of poverty, hunger rated as today’s top priorities in Ipsos poll

Half of respondents said their government was not doing enough to achieve SDGs

Focus not on graft

Corruption is not just the kind that has found recent media attention

Children: victims of war and poverty

Double trouble

Widespread disagreement may mar WSSD

Three brackets to Johannesburg

An inconclusive Bali PrepCom meet only takes confusion and procrastination to Rio +10