-The Hindu Classes 1-5 to benefit; this is among 5 schemes announced Chennai: On the occasion of the DMK government of Chief Minister M. K. Stalin stepping into its second year on Saturday, the State was richer by five new development schemes. Mr. Stalin made the announcements in the Assembly. The schemes are a free morning breakfast scheme for government school students, a scheme to eradicate nutrition deficiency, establishment of schools of excellence...
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'Betting on Hunger': Market Speculation Is Contributing to Global Food Insecurity -Kabir Agarwal, Thin Lei Win and Margot Gibbs
-TheWire.in An investigation has found that the industry and lobbyists have sabotaged efforts to rein in such behaviour. New Delhi/London/Rome: Food prices have climbed to unprecedented levels in recent months, adding to an already precarious food security situation in large parts of the developing world. Nearly 200 million people already faced acute food insecurity in 2021, almost double the figure from 2016, according to a United Nations report released Wednesday. The report blamed the...
More »A deep dive into WHO report on Covid deaths in India and why govt opposes it -Sharmita Kar
-Hindustan Times The WHO said it developed an ‘innovative’ and ‘robust’ methodology for its findings that are completely transparent. The Centre said all its letters seeking a clarification were met with a lukewarm response. A controversy has erupted over a World Health Organization (WHO) report, released a day ago, claiming that Covid-19 deaths in India were nearly 10 times the figures reported by the government, a statement vehemently rejected by the Centre. The...
More »Food price inflation could have been avoided, says new IPES-Food report
-International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems (IPES-Food) How the failure to reform food systems has allowed the war in Ukraine to spark a third global food price crisis in 15 years, and what can be done to prevent the next one. With the invasion of Ukraine sparking a third food price crisis in 15 years, a new IPES-Food special report, ‘Another Perfect Storm?’ takes stock of the critical factors fanning...
More »Indian farmers benefit from a sharp increase in exports; government cuts procurement for welfare programmes - PK Krishnakumar
-Moneycontrol.com Global buyers have turned to India, the second-largest producer of wheat, after the onset of the Russia-Ukraine war. Russia and Ukraine together accounted for 30% of the global wheat supply. Indian wheat farmers are earning more this year, thanks to a sharp increase in exports after the February 24 start of the Russian invasion of neighbouring Ukraine, which has disrupted global supply chains. Prices have exceeded the government-fixed minimum support price (MSP)...
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