Forests

What can forests contribute to the poor?

The Asia-Pacific region is home to over 900 million poor. Most are in rural areas and there is considerable overlap with forest areas. As such, the forestry sector developments are intimately engaged with poverty issues.

Publication Date: 
01/01/2011
Wang Hong, Jeremy Broadhead
Tiger Paper
1
7-10
Tags:
Forests, Poverty, Asia, Industrial Forests, Community Forest Management (CFM), Ecosystem Services, Forest Management, REDD, Climate Change
Poverty

Thanks to Aadhaar, MGNREGS is in demand in Jharkhand

Prompt payment through bank; corruption eliminated; in fact, some workers have a saving. They are all manual workers earning Rs. 100 daily under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme and some of them have a bank balance — no matter how small — made possible because of their financial inclusion and the introduction of technology that links their accounts biometrically through the Aadhaar number.

Migration curbed

Publication Date: 
10/02/2012
Hindu (New Delhi)
Tags:
National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS), Jharkhand, Unique Identification Number (UID), Anti-Poverty Programmes, Panchayats, Ranchi (D), Migration, People
Health

Haryana to launch a new urban health mission

Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Thursday said that a State Urban Health Mission would be launched to provide comprehensive health services in the urban areas particularly targeting the slum areas. He also announced that under the Indira Bal Swasthya Yojana (IBSY) free treatment would be provided to all children. Earlier, free treatment was provided to children hailing from Below Poverty Line families only.

Publication Date: 
10/02/2012
Hindu (New Delhi)
Tags:
Health, Health Care, Haryana, Urbanisation, Poverty, Population
Poverty

Multidimensional poverty index (MPI) at a glance: India country briefing

This country briefing presents the results of the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) and explains key findings graphically. The MPI reflects both the incidence or headcount ratio (H) of poverty – the proportion of the population that is multidimensionally poor – and the average intensity (A) of their poverty – the average proportion of indicators in which poor people are deprived.

Publication Date: 
01/12/2011
Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative
Tags:
Poverty, India, Education, Health, Drinking Water, Sanitation, Electricity, Nutrition
Poverty

Millions risk hunger in South Sudan - U.N.

Conflict, population displacement and high food prices mean millions of people in South Sudan face hunger this year, two U.N. food agencies said on Wednesday.

The number of people with insecure food supplies has risen to 4.7 million in 2012 from 3.3 million in 2011, a report by the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and World Food Programme (WFP) said.

Of those, about one million people are severely food insecure, and that number could double if fighting continues and prices keep rising, the report said.

Publication Date: 
09/02/2012
Reuters
Tags:
Conflicts, Population, Displacement, Food Prices, Sudan, Poverty, FAO, World Food Programme (WFP), Food Crops, Food Aid, Food Security
Economy

The ghost that refuses to vanish

Doles are not a long-term solution for poverty alleviation; they only promote indolence. Catering to the rising life-style of urban India and leading rural Bharat to a spiral of prosperity can only come through setting up of productive enterprise, opines Chandigarh-based technologist and entrepreneurial professional Chandra Mohan.

Publication Date: 
01/12/2011
Chandra Mohan
Power Politics
5
11
15-17
Tags:
Economy, Poverty, Anti-Poverty Programmes, India, Economic Development, Subsidies, Multicorporations
Food Policy

Kerala opposes food security Bill

Kerala on Wednesday raised serious apprehensions on the effectiveness of the proposed national food security law as it could remove large number of poor families from the beneficiary list besides putting enormous financial burden on the state. Shibu Baby John, food and civil supplies minister, Kerala said the centre must apply separate socio-economic critieria for choosing beneficiaries under the Targeted Public Distribution System (TPDS) as because of better human index of the state, many families could be deprived from getting benefits of subsidised grain.

Publication Date: 
09/02/2012
Financial Express (New Delhi)
Tags:
Kerala, Food Security, Poverty, Food Supply, Subsidies
Poverty

Cereal consumption and per capita income in India

This paper examines the relationship between per capita cereal consumption and per capita income in India using the India Human Development Survey 2004-05. It turns out that per capita cereal consumption remains much the same at different levels of per capita income, though it does vary substantially with education levels, household size, occupation patterns and urbanisation. The recent decline of cereal consumption over time may reflect changes in these non-income factors. While cereal consumption seems unrelated to per capita income, it is positively related to per capita expenditure.

Publication Date: 
11/02/2012
Christian Oldiges
Economic and Political Weekly
47
6
63-71
Tags:
Legumes, Nutrition, India, Poverty, Consumption Patterns, Food Prices, Economy
Governance And Institutions

Everyday corruption and the political mediation of the Indian state - An ethnographic exploration of brokers in Bihar

This analysis examines what the ubiquitous presence of political “brokers” who mediate many people’s access to state institutions reveals about the Indian state and the complex causes of corruption in Indian public life. Drawing from ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Bihar since 2002, it reveals the role of brokers within both village power relations and the larger political system.

Publication Date: 
11/02/2012
Jeffrey Witsoe
Economic and Political Weekly
47
6
47-54
Tags:
Corruption, India, Bihar, Politics, Finance, Scheduled Castes, Poverty, Anti-Poverty Programmes, National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), Bhojpur
Economy

Developmental crisis and dialectics of protest politics - Presenting the absent and absenting the present

There is not just a crisis of development today, but also a crisis of ideas for emancipatory forms of development. What is needed from progressives is a rigorous theory that must acknowledge what is present (class exploitation, imperialism, national and social oppression, profit-driven ecological destruction, gross commercialisation of all spheres of human life including culture and social relations) but also what is absent (collective democratic control over our lives, our planet, our bodies, our destiny, our culture).

Publication Date: 
11/02/2012
Raju J Das
Economic and Political Weekly
47
6
26-24
Tags:
Development, Conflicts, Agriculture, India, Poverty, Developing Countries

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