Rising
food prices threaten poverty reduction: WB,
Infochange
India News,
14 Apr 2008
Hungry & Angry,
The
Hindustan Times,
16 Apr 2008
The
food crisis begins to bite,
-by Jerome
Taylor and Andrew Buncombe,
The Independent,
25 April 2008
'The
days of cheap food are over': M S Swaminathan,
-by Rashme Sehgal,
Infochange India, 01 April 2008
Grain
drain,
-by Raj Chengappa with Ramesh Vinayak,
India Today Magazine,
11 June 2007
It's
not the price that causes hunger,
-by Robert Paarlberg,
Tuesday, http://www.iht.com,
22 April 2008
The
FAO hosted the first major World Conference on Food in Rome in 1974,
which proclaimed that " every man, women and child has the inalienable
right to be free from hunger and malnutrition in order to develop their
physical and mental faculties."
The
goals of the conference included the eradication of hunger, the need
for food security and the reduction of malnutrition "within a decade".
But the goals were never reached .S
In
November 1996, the FAO hosted another five-day World Food Summit, which
adopted a Rome Declaration on World Food Security and a Plan of Action
to eradicate or minimise global hunger.
The current crisis, not surprisingly, has triggered a third Food Summit, also in
Rome from Jun. 3-5, where another elaborate plan is due to be unveiled by heads of state and governments.
Nearly
34 years after the first FAO conference - and dozens of U.N.
resolutions and voluminous reports later --the developing world is
facing another global food shortage, along with skyrocketing prices. |
Indian
Food Crisis?,
-by Mukesh Ray,
Countercurrents,
28 Apr 2008
| | Government
panic stokes inflation,
-by Swaminathan S Anklesaria
Aiyar,
The Times of India, Mumbai,
06 April 2008
Gene
therapy,
-by Henry Miller,
The Guardian,
16 April 2008
It's
a challenge for the State,
-by MS Swaminathan,
DNA,
Mumbai,
30 March 2008
Change
in farming can feed world-report,
-by John Vidal
,
The Guardian,
16 April 2008
You
pay more for grain, but farmer gets less,
-by Amit Bhattacharya,
The Times
of India, Mumbai,
07 April 2008
HOW MUCH DOES A SMALL FARMER MAKE?
Here's
a 2005 cost analysis of a kharif crop grown by a marginal farmer from
Basrahiya village in Lucknow district. The study was done for the
planning department of the UP government.
Land cultivated 3 bighas
(0.75 hectare)
Investment Rs.12,200
Total returns expected
Rs.20,800
Labour Input: 5-6 months of work by the farmer, his adult son and daughter-in-law
Net profit Rs.8600 or Rs.1720 per month
Amount each of the three world have earned had they worked as wage labourers for 30 days Rs.1,800 (at Rs.60 a day) |
|
'Asia
will become food importer',
The Asian Age, Mumbai,
03 April 2008
America
eats 5 times more than India,
-by Subodh Varma,
The Times of India, Mumbai,
04 May 2008 |
urban food-buyers. But we must be careful not to equate high
crop prices with hunger around the world. Most of the world's hungry
people do not use international food markets, and most of those who use
these markets are not hungry.