The distribution of iron fortified rice is part of the Government of India’s push to combat anaemia and it will become a near mandatory programme for the poor, for whom this rice will be inescapable i.e., PDS, ICDS, school meals, etc. The fact-finding visit was organised by Alliance for Sustainable & Holistic Agriculture (ASHA-Kisan Swaraj)…
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Please click here to access the National Food Security Act, 2013, which got the Presidential assent on 10 September, 2013. Please click here to access the National Food Security Bill that was passed by the Lok Sabha on 26 August, 2013. The Chhattisgarh Food Security Act 2012 can be accessed from here. The National Food Security Ordinance, 2013 notified by the Union government that entitles 67% of…
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Recommendations made by the National Advisory Council (NAC) pertaining to the Right to Food Bill during its sixth meeting, http://www.nac.nic.in/press_releases/23_october%20_2010.pdf: 1. The Sixth meeting of the National Advisory Council was chaired by Smt. Sonia Gandhi on 23rd October, 2010 at 2 Motilal Nehru Place, New Delhi. 2. Members who attended the meeting were Prof. M.S. Swaminathan,…
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According to the Report on the State of Food Insecurity in Rural India (2009), which has been prepared by the MS Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF) and the World Food Programme (WFP), http://home.wfp.org/stellent/groups/public/documents/newsroom/wfp197348.pdf:
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According to the Report No. 510 on “Public Distribution System and Other Sources of Household Consumption, 2004-05” based on the seventh quinquennial survey on Household Consumer Expenditure carried out during the NSS 61st round (July, 2004 – June, 2005) by the National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO) in the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, http://mospi.nic.in/press_note_510-Final.htm:
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KEY TRENDS • The biggest school feeding programmes are in India (114 million), Brazil (47 million), the United States (45 million) and China (26 million). India has a universal school meals programmes. It’s school feeding programme ranks 12th among 35 lower-middle-income countries covering 79 percent of its total number of school-going children $ • In 2010-11, the…
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The key findings of the World Food Programme’s brief titled ICDS — Tracking State Government Response to COVID-19: January to April 2021, released in April 2021 (please click here to access): • Since March 2020, World Food Programme (WFP) has been monitoring the implementation of ICDS at the State and UT level in response to the COVID-19 crisis. WFP…
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The key findings of the World Food Programme’s brief titled School Meals in India — Tracking State Government Response to COVID-19: January to March 2021, released in 2021 (please click here to access): • The World Food Programme (WFP) has been monitoring the COVID-MDM response through tracking and documenting the response across States since March 2020 and this…
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Kindly click here and here to access the key findings of the working paper titled COVID-19: Missing More Than a Classroom — The impact of school closures on children’s nutrition (published in January 2021), authored by Artur Borkowski, Javier Santiago Ortiz Correa, Donald A. P. Bundy, Carmen Burbano, Chika Hayashi, Edward Lloyd-Evans, Jutta Neitzel and Nicolas Reuge, Office of Research…
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