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Articles: General
This section contains articles of a general nature on the right to food and related issues. Articles on specific issues - such as mid-day meals or the employment guarantee act - will be found in the relevant subsections.
- 2013
- Pensions in the margin (Harsh Mander, The Hindu, 23 March 2013)
- Dispelling the haze (Usha Ramanathan, Frontline, 9-22 March 2013)
- From Bengal Famine to Right to Food (MS Swaminathan, The Hindu, 13 February 2013)
- Questions for Mr. Nilekani (S G Vombatkere, The Hindu, 6 February 2013)
- A 'Cost-Benefit' Analysis of UID (Reetika Khera, Economic and Political Weekly, 2 February 2013)
- From langar with love (Harsh Mander, The Hindu, 12 January 2013)
- UID/Aadhaar: Can fingerprints be faked? (Moneylife, 12 January 2013)
- 2012
- The need for food security floor (M S Swaminathan, Financial Chronicle, 19 December 2012)
- 'We need to promote the culture of donating breast milk' (Ratnika Sharma, Down to Earth, 11 December 2012)
- 'Malnutrition figures in India are highly exaggerated' (excerpts of interview with Arvind Panagariya, Tehelka, 1 December 2012)
- India's malnutrition plight: The effects are more dire than we think (Siddharth Chatterjee, Alter Net, 19 November 2012)
- Ensuring that citizens enjoy the right to food should be a national priority (Sunday Monitor, 25 November 2012)
- Dalits and the Right to Food – Discrimination and Exclusion in Food-related Government Programmes (Sukhdeo Thorat and Joel Lee, Indian Institute of Dalit Studies, Working Paper Series, Vol 1, No 3, 2006)
- Food for all (M S Swaminathan, Deccan Chronicle, 30 Dec)
- Keeper of grains (Jyotika Sood, Down To Earth, 15 December 2012)
- Food Price Escalation in South Asia (Bruno Carrasco and Hiranya Mukhopadhyay, Economic and Political Weekly, 17 November 2012)
- The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2012:
Economic growth is necessary but not sufficient to accelerate reduction of hunger
and malnutrition (FAO, WFP and IFAD, 2012) | Related article in The Hindu on 22 October 2012
- Blundering on land and Aadhaar (Praful Bidwai, Pratirodh, 30 October 2012)
- Food security and fiscal laxity (Indira Rajaraman, Business Standard, 23 October 2012)
- Food basket is shrinking (Vibha Varshney, Down to Earth, 15 October 2012)
- Impact of reforms on food security (MG Warrier, Moneylife, 9 October 2012)
- Energy Security and Biodiesel: Implications for Land Use and Food Security (Robin Singhal and Ramprasad Sengupta, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol 47, Issue 40, 6 October)
- GM crops are no way forward (Satyarat Chaturvedi, The Hindu, 24 August 2012)
- Blinkered focus on cereals (Rupa Chinai, Indiatogether, 22 June 2012)
- Cry in the Wilderness (Vikhar Ahmed Sayeed, Frontline, Volume 29, Issue 12, 16-29 June 2012)
- The Age of Reason (Panini Anand, Outlook, 18 June 2012)
- Baba Adhav comes to Delhi with pension call (Civil Society, June 2012)
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And pension for all (Jayati Ghosh, Frontline, 19 May - 1 June 2012)
- The politics of food for the hungry (Aruna Roy and Neha Saigal, The Hindu, 30 May 2012)
- The withering of age (Harsh Mander, Hindustan Times, 22 May 2012)
- For a universal old-age pension plan (Prabhat Patnaik, The Hindu, 10 May 2012)
- Food Insecurity (Himanshu, The Caravan, 1 Feb 2012)
- Budget 2012: Tinkering with Subsidies (Mala Lalvani, Economic and Political Weekly, Volume 47, Issue 15, 14 - 20 April 2012)
- The Food, the Bad and the Ugly (P. Sainath, The Hindu, 22 March 2012)
- Climate change threat to food produce in India, says study (Indrajit Bose, Down to Earth, 1 March 2012)
- A Nutrition Secure India: Role of Agriculture (Suneetha Kadiyala, P K Joshi, S Mahendra Dev, T Nanda Kumar and Vijay Vyas, Economic and Poltical Weekly, Volume 46, Number 8, 25 Feb 2012)
- Promoting 'Inclusiveness': A framework for assessing India's flagship social welfare programmes (Kaveri Gil, Social Policy Working Paper Series - 2, UNICEF India, 2012)
- 2011
- Your Call with Amartya Sen and Jean Dreze (NDTV, 18 December 2011)
- Food Insecurity in Gujarat (Sujoy Chakravarthy and Sejal Dand, Economic and Political Weekly, 3 June 2006)
- Hunger pangs (Jisha Krishnan, The Week, 26 November 2011)
- Identity concerns (R.Ramakumar, Frontline, Volume 28 - Issue 24 :: Nov. 19-Dec. 02, 2011)
- Putting Growth In Its Place (Jean Dreze and Amartya Sen, Outlook, 14 November 2011)
- Changing priorities (CP Chandrasekhar, Frontline, Volume 28, Issue 21)
- Lip-service to inclusive growth (Kathyayini Chamaraj, Infochange Governance, 12 September 2011)
- Dividing the poor (T.K. Rajalakshmi, Frontline, Volume 28 - Issue 19 :: Sep. 10-23, 2011)
- A better morning (Editorial, The Indian Express, 22 August 2011)
- Food fundamentals (Coomi Kapoor, Indian Express, 19 August 2011)
- 'Food' for thought... (Pushpa Achanta, Citizen Matters, 28 July 2011)
- Aadhaar: on a platform of myths (R. Ramakumar, The
Hindu, 18 July 2011)
- Paddy Glut and farmer distress (R V Ramana Murthy, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol 46 No 29, July 16 2011)
- Identifying BPL Households: A Comparison of Competing Approaches (M.R Sharan, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol 46 No.26 and 27, June 25 2011)
- ‘New’ Lists for ‘Old’: (Re-) constructing the Poor in the BPL Census (Indrajit Roy, Economic and Political Weekly, 28 May 2011, Volume 46
Issue 22)
- An exercise in undercounting the poor (Brinda Karat, 9 June 2011, The Hindu)
- Humane criteria for fixing poverty line (Kathyayini Chamaraj, 11 May, Deccan
Herald)
- Poverty begets poverty (Richard Mahapatra, Down to Earth, 31 May 2011)
- Is food security a myth in Kerala? (Joseph Tharamangalam, Economic and Political Weekly, 14 May 2011, Volume 46 Issue 20)
- The wheat mountains of the Punjab (M. S. Swaminathan, The Hindu, 11 May 2011)
- Agriculture, Food Security and Nutrition in Vidarbha: A Household Level Analysis (S Parasuraman and T Rajaretnam, The Economic and Political Weekly, Volume 46, Issue 19, 7 May 2011)
- Public support to Food Security in India, Brazil and South Africa: Elements for a policy dialogue (Darana Souza and Danuta Chmielewska, International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, Working Paper number 80, April 2011)
- BPL's dividing line (Moyna, Down To Earth, 30 April 2011)
- Wheat bought by govt lies in open for lack of storage space (Rukmini Shrinivasan, The Times of India, 21 April 2011)
- Bonus turns bane for MP's farmers (Rukmini Shrinivasan, The Times of India, 20 April 2011)
- Mobile revolution in MP wheat market (Rukmini Shrinivasan, The Times of India, 19 April 2011)
- Problem of Plenty (Rukmini Shrinivasan, The Times of India, 17 April 2011)
- Calorie intake as nutritional measure needs a relook (Himanshu, Mint, 15 April 2011)
- Of lucky numbers and others the FM can't see (Biraj Patnaik, The Economic Times, 4 March 2011)
- NAC Undermined (Praful Bidwai, Frontline, 26 February - 11 March 2011)
- The UID project and Welfare Schemes (Reetika Khera, Econmic and Political Weekly, 26 February - 4 March 2011)
- Various articles on the Right to Food in India (Budget Track, January 2011)
- India's Foodgrain Policy: An Economic Theory Perspective (Kaushik Basu, Economic and Political Weekly, Volume 46, Issue 5)
- Lalitpur's baby formula (Arun Paliwal, Down to Earth, 15 February 2011)
- 2010
- Between starvation and globalization: Realizing the right to food in India (Lauren Birchfield and Jessica Corsi, Michigan Journal of International Law, Vol 31:69)
- Unique facility, or recipe for trouble? (Jean Drèze, The Hindu, 25 November 2010)
- On Some Fatal Fallacies (Utsa Patnaik, Economic and Political Weekly, Volume 45, Number 47, November 20-26, 2010)
- From Calorie Fundamentalism to Cereal Accounting (Angus Deaton and Jean Drèze, Economic and Political Weekly, Volume 45, Number 47, November 20-26, 2010)
- What India's growth story conceals (Hindustan Times, 14 October 2010)
- Put stomachs in our heads (Hindustan Times, 11 October 2010)
- UID an assault on individual liberty, say activists (Sreelatha Menon, 4 September 2010, Business Standard)
- Not all that Unique (Reetika Khera, Hindustan Times, 30 August 2010)
- How to stop the rot (Samar Halarnkar, Hindustan Times, 11 August 2010)
- The new shifting agriculture: Shopping for fields overseas (Times of India, 9 July 2010)
- Straight from cradle to grave (Ranjan Srivastava, Hindustan Times, 10 June 2010)
- India's blank spaces (Samar Halarnkar, Hindustan Times, 2 June 2010)
- FTA? Nothing free about it (Biraj Patnaik, Times of India, 14 May 2010)
- Parental guidance (Abhijit Banerjee, Hindustan Times, 4 May 2010)
- No country for the common man (Governance Now, 17 April 2010)
- Hard to Stomach (Biraj Patnaik, Hindustan Times, 4 April 2010)
- India's big chance (Samar Halarnkar, Hindustan Times, 31 March 2010)
- Breakdown in Balangir (Priya Ranjan Sahu, Hindustan Times, 29 March 2010)
- The hungry fields of Orissa
(Priya Ranjan Sahu, Hindustan Times, 24 March 2010)
- Spot the Budget's aam aadmi
(Biraj Patnaik, Live Mint, 11 March 2010)
- 2008
- 2006
- Fighting Malnutrition: A better plan needed (Editorial, Deccan Chronicle, 25 December 2006)
- Starvation on a rise in Madhya Pradesh (Girish Sharma Bhopal, Pioneer, 24 December 2006)
- Government claim on Institutional Delivery at Stake (Staff Reporter, Central Chronicle, 23 December 2006)
- Women ask for Right to Safe Motherhood (mpnewsonline.com, 18 December 2006)
- Lack of Blood kills two in Bhind (Staff Reporter, Pioneer, 2 December 2006)
- Hunger deaths haunt state (Sravani Sarkar, The Hindustan Times, 25 November 2006)
- V. B. Rawat (2006) Hunger and Starvation in Eastern Uttar-Pradesh: Dance of death haunts Mushahars in Kushinagar (Manuski, 19 December 2006)
- Biraj Patnaik, The right to food (OneWorld South Asia, 6 November 2006)
- Colin Gonsalves (2006) Sabotaging PDS
- 2005
- Jayati Ghosh (2005) Food Insecurity in South Asia (Asian Age, 27 December 2005)
- Aruna Roy (2005) India Empowered to me is when we have the political maturity to listen to the dissent of the deprived (Indian Express, 17 December 2005)
- Aruna Roy (2005) Minds and intestines (Tehelka, 10 December 2005)
- Nistula Hebbar (2005) Wages fail to come in time (Business Standard, 16 May 2005)
- Nistula Hebbar (2005) Not all poor get work here (Business Standard, 17 May 2005)
- Nistula Hebbar (2005) Grain for workers reach mandis (Business Standard, 18 May 2005)
- Nistula Hebbar (2005) Nobody knows what to build (Business Standard, 19 May 2005)
- Sachin Jain (2005) Unfolding Public Distribution System in Madhya Pradesh
- Reetika Khera (2005) India's Right to Food Campaign (Just for Change, forthcoming)
- Joel Lee and Sukhadeo Thorat (2005) Caste Discrimination and Food Security Programmes (EPW, September 24, 2005)
- National Centre for Advocacy Studies (2005) Assuring Livelihoods and Empowering Poor
- Ashutosh Varshney (2005) ABC of Poverty Alleviation (India Today, 19 September 2005)
- Amy Waldman (2005) Against all odds, India casts a safety net (International Herald Tribune, 26 April 2005)
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- 2002
- 2001
Last updated: 15 April 2013 |
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