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.

• 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 Dr�ze (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 Andhara 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 Dr�ze (2002) From the Courts to the Streets
  • Bela Bhatia and Jean Dr�ze (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: 20 October 2009