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Civil society innovation and resilience in the struggle for the right to food in India
Pande, Suchi; Houtzager, Peter P. - 2016
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Making Right to Food -- A Reality in India
Khandare, Jayashree - 2016
Food formed the foundation from where fulfillment of all other needs start. On the one hand, the growth of the food processing industry by leaps and bounds providing variety of foods and on the other hand getting adequate food has remained an illusion for millions worldwide. The most vulnerable...
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A common sense approach to the right to food
Hossain, Naomi; Lintelo, Dolfte; Kelbert, Alexandra Wanjiku - 2015
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Food and nutrition security : towards the full realisation of human rights
Nogueira, Lívia Maria da Costa (ed.);  … - 2016
The challenges involved in the realisation of the human right to adequate food and nutrition (HRtAFN), and of food and nutrition sovereignty and security in African countries and in Brazil, comprise different elements - but also share several similarities. While there has been evidence of a...
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Food Sovereignty : Processes of Democratisation of the Food Systems and the Right to Food
Rinella, Angelo - 2015
"Food sovereignty" expresses a complex concept, the key elements of which are attributable to a unitary matrix of political, social and economic order. It is, in other words, a political plan which is alternative to the neoliberal model, which on a global level dominates the agro-food sector....
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Leakages from Public Distribution System (PDS) and the way forward
Gulati, Ashok; Saini, Shweta - 2015
The public distribution system (PDS) has been one of the main policy instruments of the Government of India (GoI) to … that at an all-India level, 46.7 per cent or 25.9 MMTs of the off-taken grain did not reach the intended PDS beneficiaries … in 2011-12. The percent share of total leakage increased with states where greater percent of India's poor resided (five …
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Evolution and critique of buffer stocking policy of India
Saini, Shweta; Kozicka, Marta - 2014
India's economic standing and its policy landscape have come a long way since the 1943 Bengal famine. History saw …-scarce, food-importing country, India has emerged as a grain-surplus and a net grain-exporting country. The production base is … in the godowns of the Food Corporation of India (FCI) and its nominated state agencies, raising questions about the …
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Social hierarchies and public distribution of food in rural India
Basu, Deepankar; Das, Debarshi - 2014
In this paper, we develop a simple model that shows that consumption of PDS food grains is significantly different between rich and poor households in states where the PDS functions relatively well; in places where the PDS is non-functional, the difference is not significant. Using...
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Poverty and food security in India
Himanshu - 2013
This paper is an attempt to analyze the impact of two of India's largest food security interventions - the Public …
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Assessing the role of women empowerment for food security and nutrition: empirical evidence from Tunisia and India
Kruse, Marco - 2019
Equality for women in all areas of life is not only a fundamental human right, but is also a crucial prerequisite for achieving human development goals. Women constitute half of the world population and about 43 percent of the agricultural labor force, which makes the importance of research into...
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