The new welfarism as part of the neoliberal reforms undertaken in early 1990s is yet to ensure that all citizens receive enough nutritious food
AAP alleged that it is a clear case of collusion between the BJP and the ration mafia.
India needs to create a 21st-century welfare ecosystem to transform benefit delivery programs. The private sector can help.
While India's PDS, the world's biggest food security initiative, has helped avert famines, it has not been able to provide nutrition security, because for decades, foodgrain self-sufficiency and not nutrition, has been the...
FCI not lifting the stocks would impact close to 21.52 lakh farmers, Congress spokesperson Gourav Vallabh said.
Anemia has affected over 40 per cent our nation’s population. Food fortification could play a major role in lowering its rate.
The Centre has reacted angrily at the new Global Hunger Index, but experts say it should plug loopholes in the food delivery system.
Congress President Sonai Gandhi was addressing a meeting of chief ministers of states ruled by non-NDA parties, which was convened by her ahead of the crucial GST Council meeting on Thursday and the Monsoon session of...
While ensuring food and economic security for the poor is obviously a high priority, we cannot ignore the clear linkage between unhealthy diets and the...
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COVID-19 has exposed the huge gaps in our nutrition security. We need to fix them before it is too late.
Social activist Nikhil Dey tells Outlook that the 'One Nation One Ration Card' scheme is impractical and universalization of Public Distribution System is the...
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Now, we have the hungry and COVID-19, simultaneously. A deadly combination, especially for the migrant poor. Still, we can feed all our people, if only we...
In the aftermath of the coronavirus-forced lockdown, distribution networks are choked and states are clueless on how to move the food to where it is required
Despite designing the world’s earliest and largest schemes on hunger and malnutrition, having surplus grains and food wastage, millions of Indians go to...
Why achieving India’s nutrition security through sustainable food systems is the road ahead
Centre’s proposals for single-point solutions to state subjects raise the Opposition’s hecklesThe BJP-led NDA government's plan to link ration cards with...
'The idea behind the new labelling regulations is to enable citizens to know more about the composition of food products, so that they can make informed...
In the fertile farmlands of Mandsaur, political allegiance still grows tall. As does farmers’ discontent and anger.
Special assistance is also being given to the people of Jangalmahal and Hill areas besides Aila-affected areas and farmers of Singur, tea garden workers as...
The farmers’ march in Mumbai was a success, but progress will need national coordination
Good monsoon or bad, glut or drought, boom or bust...it’s always fair weather for the range of middlemen who come between the farmer and consumer. An...
Farmer protests have been loudest in states with high agricultural growth. What explains the paradox?
