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Toxic dal could be back and it may not be a bad idea to try it -Zia Haq

-Hindustan Times Three new lentil (dal) varieties belonging to a family of legumes known to be poisonous since Hippocrates’s time could be back on your plates. But should you eat them? India’s chronic shortage of pulses – the essential soupy item in everyday meals – has made a cheap source of protein for millions very expensive. So, the country is thinking of bringing back khesari dal (scientific name: lathyrus odoratus), which became...

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Family planning women's burden -Durgesh Nandan Jha

-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The national capital is not just battling a skewed sex ratio and women's safety, but also lagging behind in ensuring equality as far as Family planning is concerned. Data shows that the onus of Family planning predominantly rests with women. They account for 95% of sterilisations conducted at various family welfare centres in the state. What is even more worrisome is that the number of men...

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Jairo Castano, FAO senior statistician and leader of the Census & Surveys team, interviewed by Down to Earth

-Down to Earth From providing agricultural information for specific countries to identifying trends in the sector, censuses serve a variety of purpose In the backdrop of a round of country-driven agricultural censuses which will begin in 2016 to gather information and statistics on the global agriculture sector, senior FAO statiscian Jairo Castano discusses with Down To Earth the importance of the exercise. * How helpful are agricultural censuses in gathering information and statistics...

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Angus Deaton and the great Indian poverty debate -Himanshu

-Livemint.com Nobel to Deaton calls for a celebration of not just his own work but also the contributions of a number of Indian economists who have engaged with similar issues The announcement of Angus Deaton winning the Nobel Prize in economics was unexpected but not surprising. His body of work over the years has influenced many of us who have worked on issues of poverty, nutrition and food security. It is...

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Breaking the bonds of rural poverty -Jose Graziano Da Silva

-The Hindu Far from creating dependency, evidence shows that social protection increases both on-farm and non-farm activities, strengthening livelihoods and lifting incomes Today, on World Food Day, the world has a lot to celebrate. As a global community, we’ve made real progress in fighting global hunger and poverty in recent decades. A majority of the countries monitored by the United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organisation — 72 out of the 129 —...

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