Hi-tech project in Nagaon to curb malnutrition
Dispur has come up with a hi-tech solution to end the chaos surrounding the distribution of nutritional food through the Anganwadi centres. In keeping with the new system, children aged between 5 months
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No effect of CSE report on Junk food biz
Amritsar: New Delhi-based Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) releasing negative results in March after testing 16 major food brands, including Nestle's Maggi noodles, McDonald's, KFC, Haldiram's
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UN CERF allocates US $5 m to Nepal to address food insecurity in remote districts
More than 200,000 Nepalis will receive help to address food insecurity and support for life-saving response to children under five, thanks to a US$ 5 million allocation this week from the United National
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UN plan for the flood-hit gets no funds from donors
No funds have so far been contributed by donor countries for a programme launched jointly by the United Nations and Pakistan for flood-affected people of Sindh and Balochistan. The Early Recovery Framework
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$ 40m US grant for health sector assured
The US government, through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), on Monday committed $ 40 million grant over the next five years to support the US$ 7.6 billion health sector development
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Food Stamps Helped Reduce Poverty Rate, Study Finds
A new study by the Agriculture Department has found that food stamps, one of the country’s largest social safety net programs, reduced the poverty rate substantially during the recent recession. The food
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Impact of the global financial and economic situation on agricultural markets and food security
Agricultural prices have fallen heavily since their peaks in the first half of 2008: some are already at the levels seen in early 2007 before the recent spike began. Thanks in part to economic downturn, prices are expected to continue falling in 2009. Prices of inputs such as fertiliser and oil, and ocean freight rates, have also come down; and by even larger fractions than those of outputs.
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A feast of millets
Cities have forgotten the amazing foods and cuisines they used to once enjoy. To remind them the Millet Network of India (MINI) and Kheti Virasat Mission organised the first ever exhibition of millets at the Press Club in Chandigarh called Bebe di Rasoi (Grandmother
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Govt failed to act against graft in ICDS
Women in anganwadis ended up selling food supplied to them as cattle fodder The Department of Women and Child Development (DWCD) was spending more than Rs 600 crore annually to provide nutritious food to children, pregnant and lactating mothers, and adolescent girls. But the Department failed to act when consistent reports from anganwadi centres streamed in about rejection of the food by children and mothers, which they sold as cattle feed in the market.
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Losing direction
The Budget provides proof of the United Progressive Alliance government having forgotten the importance of its own “flagship schemes”. BUDGET 2012-13 provides conclusive proof that the United Progressive
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More bang for carbon bucks
MEDIA organisations in wealthy countries regularly send forth reporters to find
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Ochrophora montana (Distant): a precious dietary supplement during famine in northeastern Himalaya
Cinnamon bug or seed bug, Ochrophora (= Udonga) montana (Distant) (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) is a serious pest of bamboo, feeds on developing seeds and is able to destroy all available seeds during massive
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Poverty highest in K’taka among southern states
As per the Economic Survey report released by the Department of Planning, Programme Monitoring and Statistics on Tuesday, poverty is still a major cause for concern for Karnataka. As in 2009-10, Karnataka has 10.87 million (1.087 crore) poor people (18.5 pc). Andhra Pradesh has recorded 9.3 pc poor, Kerala 8.1 pc and Tamil Nadu 12.9 pc.
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Women’s empowerment at the frontline of adaptation: emerging issues, adaptive practices, and priorities in Nepal
In the Hindu Kush Himalayas, climate change is threatening the livelihoods of those directly dependent on agriculture and the natural resource base. Rural women are disproportionately vulnerable to the
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Family farming: the beginning of a renaissance
More than 500 million family farms dominate agriculture around the world ensuring food security and providing employment to hundreds of millions of people. Family farms are also essential in safeguarding
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Blocked in UK, Complan & Horlicks feed on kids’ exam fears here
These are two ditties from a milk supplement advertisement currently playing on television. Companies marketing products pegged to season have now latched on to the one that holds households in grip around
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Report of the expert group to review the methodology for estimation of poverty (Tendulkar Committee Report)
<p>The poverty ratio or the number of poor as a percentage of total population in India for 2004-05 is estimated at 37.2 per cent, according to this report submitted by the Suresh Tendulkar committee recently.
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Food, glorious food
BARELY a day seems to pass without a new study reporting the benefits of omega-3 fatty acids. A high intake of omega-3s has been linked with reduced rates of depression, cardiovascular disease and homicide. In pregnant women the consumption of these wonder molecules has even been associated with an uplift of the IQ of their offspring.
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The proof of the pudding
THE shelves of every supermarket are packed with probiotic yogurts that can supposedly ease constipation and fend off infections, butter substitutes that claim to reduce cholesterol, tomato extracts said to keep skin looking young while warding off cancer, infant cereals enhanced with micronutrients essential for development, and so on.
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Pure, clean food for children: Min
In order to provide fresh cooked food under Midday Meal Scheme run by Rural Development Department the Women and Child Development Department will be launching Sanjha Chulha Yojana on November 1, said Minister of State for Women and Child Development Ranjana Baghel here today.