-Deccan Chronicle Chennai: "With an estimated 8 billion mouths to feed by 2025, achieving zero hunger by that deadline is indeed challenging and this calls for arriving at precise solutions, particularly in ensuring access to nutritious food, not calories alone," said Dr M.S. Swaminathan, founder chairman of the M S Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF), Chennai. "Family farming offers an effective and economic solution to help meet the challenge of making sure that...

-Thomson Reuters India is confident that it will be able to persuade members of the 160-strong World Trade Organisation to understand its concerns over food security which derailed a global trade deal last week, said Commerce Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in parliament today. The minister explained India's stand: that the Bali trade accord, an agreement reached on the Indonesian tourist island last year, should be concluded as a package, linking India's ratification of...

-The Times of India RANCHI: Right to food campaign, conglomerate of NGOs working for implementation of Food security Act (FSA), had demanded the state government to restart 'dal-bhaat' scheme under which special outlets were opened by the state government to provide 'dal-bhaat' at cheap rate. The campaign activists convened their state-level meeting here on Sunday to discuss various aspects of the FSA and draw a comprehensive plan to intensify their stir,...

-The Hindu Business Line While some farmers organisations have welcomed the Narendra Modi Government's stance in World Trade Organisation, some others feel that the Government's actions do not match its words with regard to its stance on food security and farm subsidies at home. "We totally support the Government's stand on WTO's Trade Facilitation Agreement. In fact, in a country like ours, agriculture should be totally kept out of the purview of...

-Live Mint India's stand at WTO should be seen in the context of the persistent discrimination against Third World countries by advanced countries In the ongoing debate about agriculture and food security, India has been accused of having acted in a dogmatic manner for refusing to ratify the trade facilitation agreement unless its food security concerns are addressed in the World Trade Organization (WTO). However, this issue and India's stand have to...