-The Hindu Business Line Despite a lively debate in recent weeks on whether Food prices have now moved to being structurally low, analysts believe that this is only a transient phenomenon and Food prices, on a sequential basis, have already begun to rise. Retail inflation may be at an 18-month low but prices, especially of Food items, are likely to see a pick-up over the next few months with average inflation expected...

-Networkideas.org The basic income scheme that is in the air these days, which amounts to handing over a certain sum of money to every household to ensure that it reaches a threshold cash income, is an extremely flawed scheme. Instead of enjoining upon the state the obligation to provide essential goods and services like Food, education, and health, to its citizens, it absolves the State of all such responsibility, once it...

-Networkideas.org The National Rural Employment Guarantee Act that brought the MGNREGS into being was a unique piece of legislation in the history of independent India. It stipulated that employment was to be made available on demand, within a fortnight of being asked for, failing which an unemployment allowance had to be paid. True, its scope was confined only to rural areas, and it promised employment only up to 100 days per...

-The Indian Express ‘A farmer’s distress can be handled if he does not have to worry about his next meal’ If you ask Chate Gnaneshwar — from Emaikunta in Indervelli mandal of Adilabad district or other farmers who cultivate Foodgrains for self-consumption like him — of a solution to control farmer suicides, he is most likely to point out towards ensuring Food security for the poor agriculture community. “The distress brought upon...

-TheWire.in With the 2019 elections around the corner, political parties should step up to the plate and display their commitment to children’s nutrition. This week, the prime minister made headlines by serving midday meals supplied by  Akshaya Patra at a school in Uttar Pradesh’s Vrindavan. While he engaged in banter with the children about being late, one of the students wittily interjected that she didn’t mind as she had already eaten at home. While...