Implement food security policy, UN urges Philippines

Food security has been high on political agendas since 2007/08, when food price spikes sparked social unrest, protests and violent revolts in more than 43 countries (DF) . Around that time, the human population became more urban than rural for the ...

PM Narendra Modi formed the panel in August to suggest an overhaul of the theft-prone food distribution network. Photo: Mint New Delhi: India will not scale down its multi-billion dollar food welfare programme that promises ultra-cheap rice and ...

The Union food ministry does not seem to be in favour of lowering the legal entitlement for cheap grain to 40 per cent of the population under the Food Security Act, from the current 67 per cent, as suggested by the Shanta Kumar committee on ...

Party spokesman Randeep Surjewala alleged the Shanta Kumar Committee's report indicates that government is now proposing to "cruelly deprive 2/3rd Indians of their 'Right to Food' guaranteed to them by the previous Congress government". Congress accused the ...

Sushma Swaraj had criticised the ordinance route to legislation on the National Food Security Bill a year ago on Twitter.

for criticising the NC-led government for not implementing Food Security Bill in Jammu and Kashmir, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said the scheme would have resulted in loss to the people. " Jammu and Kashmir is only state, where the implementation of Food ...

A farmer hoeing a rice paddy in Haiti. 27 February 2015, Nassau - Agriculture, particularly family farming, is crucial for Caribbean countries to achieve food security as they face climate change and other challenges, and can also spur their ...

2015 feels like the closing chapter in a book that is still unfinished. We have the ability to give it happy ending, but not quite worked out how. The World Food Program's Gregory Barrow used this analogy to set the scene for The Economist Events ...

Ghana (ASG), a social movement of small- holder farmers, trade unions, faith based organizations and student associations are vehemently opposed to the G8 New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition in general, and specifically as it relates to ...