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In Focus:
- 30,000 farmers demand Hirakud dam water
- After nine months of its implementation Backward Region Grant Fund (BRGF) hits another roadblock
Resources: The state of food insecurity in the world
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Children to play major role under Panchayati Raj
Karnataka government has asked all village Panchayats to hold special meetings focusing on children’s issues, and to seek direct participation of children in them.
India should use one poverty measurement
Chairman of the National Statistical Commission Suresh Tendulkar has said that India should use only one measurement of poverty — 365 days consumption expenditure data.
Settlers in Andamans demand tribal status
Tribal settlers of the Andaman and Nicobar islands, mainly from the Jharkhand and Bihar, are demanding Scheduled Tribes (ST) status. Called ‘Ranchi’ these tribal men and women were brought in by the Britishers as mahouts for carrying timber to ports.
Punjab to probe Panchayat land grabbing
In Punjab some 10,000 acres of Panchayat lands have been transferred to private ownership through fraudulent means.
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30,000 farmers demand Hirakud dam water Why are farmers protesting against industrial use of Orissa’s Hirakud reservoir? The state, on an industrial overdrive, is going to witness more such conflicts.
After nine months of its implementation Backward Region Grant Fund (BRGF) hits another roadblock United Progressive Alliance (UPA)’s much-hyped Backward Region Grant Fund (BRFG) has been a non-starter. The first central scheme to be directly implemented by panchayats, for bridging the imbalances in infrastructure in backward districts, has failed to enthuse the states.
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NREGA Implementation statusThe Union rural development ministry has come out with the latest NREGA implementation status. Presenting few relevant aspects.
Now 200 days of guaranteed worksThe Union government has informed Parliament it would consider doubling the number of days of assured employment under the NREGA to 200 a year.
PACS report on NREGAThis report, ‘Status of NREGA Implementation: Grassroots Learning and Ways Forward’, is the second monitoring report prepared by Samarthan-Centre for Development Support, under the Poorest Areas Civil Society (PACS) Programme covering the period April 2006 to March 2007.
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The state of food insecurity in the world Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has the mandate to monitor progress in hunger reduction based on accurate, reliable and timely methods that measure the prevalence of hunger, food insecurity and vulnerability and that also illustrate changes over time. To comply with its mandate it has brought this report on global and national efforts to reach the goal set by the 1996 World Food Summit.
The World Bank study entitled “From Agriculture to Nutrition,Pathways, Synergies and Outcomes”This paper has important implications for agricultural and food security programmes aimed at tackling hunger and malnutrition. It examines what determines human nutritional status and how food production affects nutrition.
Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) publishes
The State of Food and Agriculture 2007This annual report, issued by the FAO, explores the potential for agriculture to provide enhanced levels of environmental services.
For executive summary and more
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