-TheWire.in The bargain between companies and their 'employees' must become more equitable. The continuation of the Russia-Ukraine war is raising the fear of an imminent stagflation (a combination of inflation and unemployment led by a low growth). Worldwide inflation numbers are on the rise. Most sources of data are suggesting a higher inflationary regime. In March 2022, the US, the largest economy in the world, recorded a 41-year high inflation of 8.1%....
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FSSAI sides with industry, puts consumers at risk -George Cheriyan
-PolicyCircle.org The role of a Food regulator is to encourage the consumption of safe, sanitised, nutritious and wholesome Food and to inform consumers about the steps it takes to minimise the risks, set standards and ensure safety. The passage of Food Safety and Standards Act (FSSA) in 2006 ushered in an era of Food safety in India. The FSSAI is a landmark law because it consolidated all laws related to Food...
More »Can Modi Govt Handle Approaching Wheat Crisis? -Subodh Varma
-Newsclick.in Production has dipped for the first time in the Modi era and procurement has plummeted, bringing wheat stocks down and affecting Foodgrain-based schemes. The Narendra Modi-led Central government is going to be confronted with a crisis that it has never faced yet – shortage of wheat, one of India’s key staples. The worry about this looming cloud is aggravated by the fact that the Modi government has not been particularly successful...
More »War, Food, Decolonisation and Why India Needs to Thank its Farmers -Prabhat Patnaik
-Newsclick.in The heroic kisan agitation against the farm laws has saved the day for India by defeating Imperialist efforts to undo India’s ‘Food sovereignty’. Russia and Ukraine together account for 30% of the world’s wheat exports. Many African countries, in particular, are heavily dependent on them for their Food supplies, which are now getting disrupted because of the war. And this disruption will continue since the war is also affecting the acreage...
More »'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...
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