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August 11, 2012
Climate change and food security
This post exhaustively compiles research available on long and short term reasons and outcomes of food insecurity, and poses climate change as one of the main reasons why food security situations across the world continue to worsen. Read more here.
August 11, 2012
Analysing Africa’s hunger
This post is a critique of the recent UNDP report ‘Africa Human Development Report 2012 – Towards a food secure future’. It talks about the omnipresent problem of Africa not utilising its agricultural resources to the maximum to feed its people, in proportion to GDP growths. […]
August 11, 2012
As Americans go hungry, other Americans waste
In 2010, America wasted 33.79 million tonnes of food. In 2008, roughly one in every six Americans went hungry. As statistics have it, a normal American ends up wasting about 209 to 254 pounds of food annually. Read more here.
August 11, 2012
US: ‘On the back of the hungry’
The Republicans have insisted that about poor American families, mostly those with children be made to pay for their foods, as the House cancelled about US$16.5 billion worth of food stamps. The food stamps, or the Supplement Nutrition Assistance Programme (SNAP) was the only way three […]
August 11, 2012
South Africa: Government should look at rising food prices as impending food crisis
The poor in South Africa spend about 60 per cent of their income on food. Situation is set to exacerbate beyond known levels as food inflation is predicted to rise by 12 to 15 per cent in the coming months. Read more here.
August 11, 2012
Food Insecurity in India
This post brilliantly delineates all the problems which are in existence, making India rank 67 out of 80, among countries suffering from acute hunger in the UN Global Hunger Index. Acute hunger gives way to malnutrition and flawed policies intricately woven into the administrative structure have […]
August 11, 2012
How to counter food security by enhancing production of Cassava
Cassava has its benefits in potentially raising millions of people in Africa out of food insecurity given its nutritional content. About 100 million Nigerians rely on consumption of Cassava in one form or the other daily. Yet, the scaling of this crop has been low given […]
August 11, 2012
Rising food prices make the urban poor food insecure
Most people in urban Kenya are given to earning incomes sporadically and very few of them have consistent sources of income. As a consequence, 70 per cent of the urban population which lives in slums in cities resort to eating fewer and cheaper meals, and are going […]
August 11, 2012
Food insecurity in Africa – already a humanitarian emergency
The first warning of food emergency in Africa was released after several muted warnings over a period of a year before that. This year yet again, the food crisis is set to begin its cruel cycle. Organizations issue warnings but global humanitarian response has been feeble […]
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GST 2.0 and Tax Cuts: Can They Make Growth Fairer and Greener?
India's latest GST reform, being termed as GST 2.0, is more than just slashing rates. By simplifying the tax structure, cutting levies on essentials, and supporting renewable infrastructure, it's open..
Reimagining Sports in CSR: From Tokenism to a Vehicle for Multiplying Impact
In 2023–24, Indian companies spent about ₹1,396 crore of their CSR budgets on sports — just 4% of the total ₹34,909 crore Indian corporates spent on CSR that year. Most of the rest went to edu..
Interactive SHG Map of India: 7.5 million Women Self Help Groups are spread across 27 States and 6 UTs in India
Under the National Rural Livelihood Mission (NRLM), India has 7.5 million Women Self Help Groups (SHGs) spread across 27 states and 6 Union Territories. Each of these small, self-governed, and peer-co..