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Dietary diversity, behaviour change in Indians key to better health and environment -Sahana Ghosh

-Mongabay.com * A recent first of its kind study provides the first scientific targets for a healthy diet from a sustainable food production system that operates within planetary boundaries for food. * Compared with current diets, global adoption of the new recommendations by 2050 will require global consumption of foods such as red meat and Sugar to decrease by more than 50 percent, while consumption of nuts, fruits, vegetables, and legumes must...

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As crops and jobs dry up, kids in Marathwada the worst hit -Priyanka Kakodkar

-The Times of India BEED: Ahead of Republic Day, students of the Kotan zilla parishad school are busy preparing to write an essay on the searing drought that has engulfed their village and the state. When asked what she will say, Pratiksha Pachpute breaks down. “If there was no drought,” says the 14-yearold, her face stained with tears, “my parents would still be with me.” Life has changed for the 8th standard...

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Go easy on potatoes, not proteins, international panel says -GS Mudur

-The Telegraph Not time yet for Indians to lose sleep on meat diet New Delhi: An international panel has released the first scientific targets for healthy diets worldwide through sustainable food production that will require Indians to increase their protein consumption and curtail their intake of potatoes. The panel, the EAT-Lancet Commission, has determined that daily healthy diets should contain at least 35 per cent calories from whole grains and tubers, protein sources...

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Addressing agrarian distress: An alternative 'area planning' price support scheme for farmers -Sher Singh Sangwan

-The Indian Express The existing MSP-based procurement system is fiscally unsustainable. The time has come to consider market intelligence-based regulation of crop production Farmers are always in distress when prices of their produce are subdued. The response of governments, obviously prompted by political pressures, has been to sharply hike minimum support prices (MSP) of crops or declare loan waivers. Thus, the current government at the Centre has significantly raised the MSPs of...

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Farmers bear the burden of deflation -Harish Damodaran

-The Indian Express Demonetisation, coupled with daily limits on cash transactions and fear of being tracked by revenue authorities post the Goods and Services Tax regime, have made traders less inclined to purchasing and stocking up produce during the harvest season. The defining feature of Indian agriculture in the last five years — much of it under the Narendra Modi government’s tenure — has been low prices for farm produce. The accompanying...

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