-ANI/ Hindustan Times Dubey said that New Delhi is running the world's largest food-based safety net programme, which has seen a paradigm shift from welfare to a rights-based approach. India will play its due role in advancing global food security, upholding Equity, displaying compassion and promoting social justice, said First Secretary Sneha Dubey at the UN Security Council high-level special event on global food security crisis on Monday (local time). Dubey said that...
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Under pressure on wheat, India brings up Covid vaccines
-The Telegraph V. Muraleedharan stresses the need for all countries to appreciate the importance of 'Equity, affordability and accessibility' when it comes to foodgrains Under pressure to reconsider the wheat export ban, India on Wednesday sought to turn the tables on the West by urging it to not hoard the foodgrain the way Covid vaccines were cornered by the developed world and maintained that there were food security exceptions to the restrictions...
More »Is participatory irrigation management working? -Kriti Bardhan Gupta and Kushankur Dey
-The Hindu Business Line A survey of Water Users’ Associations in Uttar Pradesh indicate that equitable distribution of water is still a distant reality Water is an indispensable factor of production in agriculture. Participatory irrigation management (PIM), adhering to the rules and norms of community-based natural resource management, gained salience by receiving thrust in the National Water Policy 2002. The PIM Act aims to monitor the equitable distribution of water resources between...
More »Untangling the Labyrinth of Health Inequities in India -Indranil Mukhopadhyay
-Economic and Political Weekly Please click here to access the review of the book 'Equity and Access: Health Care Studies in India', edited by Purendra Prasad and Amar Jesani, India: OUP, 2019; pp xiv + 418, Rs.1,195 (hardcover). The book review has been done by Dr. Indranil Mukhopadhyay, OP Jindal Global University, Sonipat. Kindly click here to read more. ...
More »Provide Universal Access to Food Security, Says Rights Group to Modi
-TheWire.in "With the additional grains under PMGKAY also set to stop after March 2022, the hunger crisis is likely to exacerbate in the country," the Right to Food Campaign said. New Delhi: The Right to Food Campaign has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi about the “crisis” in income decline and severe food insecurity, especially among the economically weaker and marginalised sections of society due to the COVID-19 pandemic, saying the Pradhan...
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