The country ranked 100th out of 119 countries on the global hunger index, slipping three positions from last year. IMAGE: The country’s serious hunger level is driven by high child...
Recently, a study on India's State Hunger Index comparing hunger across all India states was released by Purnima Menon, Anil Deolalikar and Anjor Bhaskar. Dr Purnima Menon is a research fellow at...
Indian poor's staple diet -- rice wheat and maize -- will soon get a booster dose of minerals and vitamins. The Central government's ambitious campaign - 'India Biofortification Programme' -- is...
The two decades of our "spectacular economic progress" has side-stepped vast swath of our underprivileged that oscillates between twenty per cent and one-fifth of our population, writes M R...
India's extremely poor score in successive years in the global hunger index (GHI) should remind policy makers of the unfinished agenda of liberalisation. In 2012, the International Food Policy...
Is speculation good or bad? A simple question that generates strident arguments. While this debate peaked last summer, a recent International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) paper by Robles,...
Few price control policies taken by the governments, including India, are likely to backfire by making the international market smaller and more volatile, a think-tank of International Food Policy...
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