Food Policy

Govt to revive subsidised flour scheme for citizens

In a bid to provide some relief to the citizens burdened by rise in prices of food items, the city government plans to soon revive a scheme under which subsidised wheat flour will be sold at over 400 outlets at around `14 per kg.

The decision to revive the scheme came after Union minister of state for food and civil supplies K.V. Thomas at a meeting with chief minister Sheila Dikshit agreed to her request to provide additional quota of subsidised wheat to Delhi.

Publication Date: 
24/05/2012
Asian Age (New Delhi)
Tags:
Subsidies, Wheat, People, Food Prices, Ministry Of Food & Civil Supplies, Food Policy, Delhi
Agriculture

Agriculture sector profits fail to lower food prices

New Delhi: A part revival of the agricultural sector and the gamble to invest in the sofar ignored eastern states paying off has not brought the kind of gains UPA would have hoped for while entering the fourth year of its second term. Divergence within the government on how to deal with food and agriculture-related issues saw the UPA frittering away the gains of three consecutive good agricultural years which now portend a record harvest of 75 million tonnes.

Publication Date: 
23/05/2012
Times Of India (New Delhi)
Tags:
Food Prices, Agriculture, Farmers, India, Horticulture
Agriculture

Centre lifts only 2.65 lakh MT wheat against 10 lakh metric tonnes

Minister of State for Food & Civil Supplies (independent charge) Shri Paras Jain rewiewed the progress of procurement of wheat on support price and availability of gunny bags at mantralaya here today. Additional Chief Secretary Food Shri Antony Desa, State Cooperative Marketing Federation Managing Director Shri Ajay Tirkey and Civil Supplies Corporation Managing Director Shri Chandrahas Dube were also present on the occasion.

Publication Date: 
23/05/2012
Central Chronicle (Bhopal)
Tags:
Madhya Pradesh, Agriculture, Wheat, Food Prices
Food Policy

Revival of the public distribution system: Evidence and explanations

Contrary to a common belief that India’s public distribution system is irreparably dysfunctional, a nine-state survey of the pds finds that the respondents received 84-88% of their full entitlement. The implicit subsidy for households below the poverty line from pds foodgrains alone is roughly equivalent, in many states, to a week’s nrega wages every month. The revival of the pds can be traced, in large part, to a renewed political interest which manifests itself in state initiatives such as expanded coverage, reduced prices, computerisation of stock management, etc.

Publication Date: 
05/11/2011
Reetika Khera
Economic and Political Weekly
46
44-45
36-50
Tags:
Food Supply, India, Subsidies, Corruption, Bihar, Food Security, Anti-Poverty Programmes, Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Orissa, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, Poverty, Rice, Wheat, Food Prices, Millets, Maize
Water Resources

Climate change adaptation and vulnerability assessment of water resources systems in developing countries: A generalized framework and a feasibility study in Bangladesh

Water is the primary medium through which climate change influences the Earth’s ecosystems and therefore people’s livelihoods and wellbeing. Besides climatic change, current demographic trends, economic development and related land use changes have direct impact on increasing demand for freshwater resources. Taken together, the net effect of these supply and demand changes is affecting the vulnerability of water resources. The concept of ‘vulnerability’ is not straightforward as there is no universally accepted approach for assessing vulnerability.

Publication Date: 
10/04/2012
Animesh K. Gain, Carlo Giupponi, Fabrice G. Renaud
Water
4
2
345-366
Tags:
Climate Change, Climate Adaptation, Water Resources, Bangladesh, South Asia, Brahmaputra, River Basin, India, Climate Impacts, Migration, Sea Level Rise, Food Prices
Food Policy

Structural reforms required to curb food prices: Economists

New Delhi With no political consensus as yet to allow the foreign direct investment (FDI) in multi-brand retail, India needs to undertake structural reforms urgently to curb food inflation that surged to a 15-month high of 10.49% in April on dearer vegetables and protein-based products.

Economists said these reforms should focus on four fundamental aspects: raising productivity, curbing wastages, better distribution and delivery system, and ensuring fair returns to producers to keep them engaged in the farm sector.

Publication Date: 
16/05/2012
Banikinkar Pattanayak
Financial Express (New Delhi)
Tags:
India, Vegetables, Food Prices, Milk, Edible Oils, Farmers, Food Storage, Crops, Animal Diseases, Milk Products, Food Policy
Economy

Economic and social survey of Asia and the Pacific 2012: pursuing shared prosperity in an era of turbulence and high commodity prices

The Asia-Pacific region continues to face a deeply challenging external environment. The V-shaped recovery from the depths of the 2008-2009 global financial crisis in 2010 proved to be short-lived, as the world economy entered the second stage of the crisis in 2011, due to euro zone debt concerns and the continued uncertain outlook for the United States economy. The region will be affected by slackening demand for its exports and higher costs of capital, as well as by loose monetary policies and trade protection measures of some advanced economies.

Publication Date: 
01/05/2012
UNESCAP
Tags:
Economic Development, Asia, India, Environment, Finance, Natural Disasters, Food Prices, Fuel Pricing, Governance, Sustainable Development, Trade, Unemployment
Agriculture

Price of paddy populism

The government procurement price for paddy is nearly the highest globally; it makes little sense for CACP to recommend a further 16 per cent rise

Publication Date: 
10/05/2012
Indian Express (New Delhi)
Tags:
Rice, Agriculture, India, Poverty, Food Prices, Subsidies
Poverty

Food security and poverty in Asia and the Pacific: key challenges and policy issues

Ensuring a secure supply of food is essential, given the world’s (and especially Asia’s) growing population, high and volatile food prices, increasingly scarce resources, and changing environment. This paper discusses the drivers behind food insecurity in Asia and points to ways to mitigate it. The world’s population has now reached 7 billion, and is projected to increase by more than 2 billion between now and 2050. Asia will account for majority of the increase.

Publication Date: 
01/04/2012
Asian Development Bank
Tags:
Food Security, Poverty, Asia, India, Food Prices, Malnutrition, Nutrition, Economic Development, Agriculture, Rural Development
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Global food policy report 2011

This is first new annual IFPRI publication provides a comprehensive, research-based analysis of major food policy challenges at the global, regional, national, and local levels. Highlights important developments in food policy that occurred in 2011 and takes a look forward into 2012.

Publication Date: 
23/04/2012
International Food Policy Research Institute
Tags:
Food Policy, Food Prices, Food Security, India, Global, Natural Disasters, Climate Change, Agriculture, Nutrition, Biofuel, Health, Land Degradation

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