Right to Food Campaign: Articles

Right to Food Campaign

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.

2011
- 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
- Spot the Budget's aam aadmi
2008
- World Food Day, 16 October 2008 Public Consultation on Malnutrition in Madhya Pradesh
- United NAtions University, World Institute for Development Economics Research Enforcing the Right to Food in India: Bottlenecks in the expected outcome
- [Hindi] Shying away from the Right to Information [4 June]
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)
2004
- Lyla Bavadam (2004) Undermining a Scheme
- C. P. Chandrashekar and Jayati Ghosh (2004) How feasible is the employment guarantee
- Tara Gopaldas (2004) Towards effective school health
- National Human Rights Commission (2004) Right to Food - A Brief Background Note
- M.P. Parmeshwaran (2004) Every child born into this society has the right to live
- Utsa Patnaik (2004) Feasting, fasting
- Utsa Patnaik (2004) The Republic of Hunger
- Suman Sahai (2004) GM Food and Hunger
2003
- Kathyayini Chamaraj (2003) No Food
- Bikash Das (2003) Legal aspects of starvation
- Priya Deshingar (2003) State transfers to the poor and back
- Nikhil Dey (2003) An open letter to the Collector of Ajmer
- Jean Dreze (2003) Beating around the bush
- Jayati Gosh (2003) The Missing Grain
- JSA Hunger Watch Group (2003) Guidelines for investigating suspected starvation deaths
- Brinda Karat (2003) For an alternate food policy
- George Kent (2003) Human Right to Adequate Food
- Sowmya Kidambi (2003) Pluralism and Democracy-Understanding our heritage, and defining our future
- Sunanda Kumar (2003) The politics of starvation deaths in Palamu - Jharkhand
- Frances M. Lappe (2003) Scarcity Myths
- Harsh Mander (2003) Tales of Deprivation
- Meena Menon (2003) Gruel Centres in Andhra Pradesh
- National Human Rights Commission (2003) Extract from a hearing on the Right to Food
- Sevanti Ninan (2003) Chemistry of News
- Pradip Prabhu (2003) A campaign for survival and dignity
- P. Sainath (2003) A gruel-ing season
- Amartya Sen (2003) Hunger in India
- Mihir Shah (2003) The Baiga Predicament
- Abhay Shukla (2003) The Right to health care - Moving from idea to reality
2002
- Jean Dreze (2002) From the Courts to the Streets
- Bela Bhatia and Jean Dreze (2002) Starvation and Right to Food in Jharkhand
- Colin Gonsalvez (2002) The Spectre of Starving India
- Brinda Karat (2002) Fighting for a Basic Human Right
- Reetika Khera (2002) Mid-day Meals in Rajasthan
- Utsa Patnaik (2002) Food Stocks and Hunger in India
- N.C. Saxena (2002 ) Food Assistance Programmes and their Role in Alleviating Poverty and Hunger in India
- Devinder Sharma (2002) The Kalahandi Syndrome: Starvation in spite of plenty
2001
- Shiva Kumar (2001) Food Security and Child Rights
- Anuradha Rajivan (2001) Nutrition Schemes in Tamil Nadu
- C. Rammanohar Reddy (2001) Crime of Food Surpluses

Last updated: 26 December 2011