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Food and Nutrition
Economic survey 2020-21: Some highlights
Posted on 30 Jan, 2021 11:20 AMFinance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman tabled the Economic Survey 2020-21 in the Parliament on January 29, 2020 - the first day of the Budget session. The survey has analysed various topics from economic growth, fiscal stance, state of banking and more.
![The Economic Survey 2021 pushes for urgent reforms in production and post production in agriculture (Image: PixaHive)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2021-01/indian-farmer-225324-pixahive-1024x683.jpg?itok=k_l0l5iJ)
Budget 2021: Will agriculture sector get a boost?
Posted on 28 Jan, 2021 10:15 AMThe agriculture sector is confronted with high price volatility, low returns, low productivity and weather risks.
![The government could consider a shift from the price support system to an income support system. PM-KISAN is a step in that direction, but the assistance under that is lacking. (Image: Wikimedia Commons)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2021-01/Planting_Rice_Paddy.jpg?itok=sX7euyIp)
Budget 2021: Cash transfer and urban employment guarantee can help blunt the economic blow
Posted on 26 Jan, 2021 11:03 AMTo revive India’s growth story and to cash in on our rapidly closing demographic dividend window, Prof Santosh Mehrotra, a human development economist suggests four essential proposals that must be included in the Budget 2021. This includes an increased expenditure in infrastructure, health sector and an urban employment guarantee programme.
![There should be an increased expenditure in infrastructure to create jobs in the construction sector. (Image: PxHere)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2021-01/pxhere_1.jpg?itok=brio78RP)
Budget 2021: Policy measures in the nutrition sector
Posted on 25 Jan, 2021 11:34 AMIndia's food security policy framework includes many proven nutrition interventions. In 2015, India committed to achieving the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) of zero hunger.
![Children eating their mid-day meal at a worksite school in Andhra Pradesh (Image: ILO Asia Pacific, Flickr Commons, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2021-01/24984456222_84706ac7c1_k.jpg?itok=v5mVc8lR)
Cereals drain India dry
Posted on 20 Jan, 2021 11:14 AMAgricultural stagnation and inefficient irrigation systems
Agriculture continues to be an important sector for the Indian economy and for food security with more than half of the workforce being employed in agricultural activities. Greater use of improved crop varieties, irrigation and fertilisers have contributed to major improvements in crop yields in India.
![Cereals and millets at a bazaar in Nizampet, Hyderabad (Image Source: Aditya Madhav, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2021-01/cereals_and_millet_at_a_bazaar_in_nizampet_02.jpg?itok=9CstwWUC)
Child malnutrition rises in five years, as per NFHS-5 data
Posted on 13 Jan, 2021 10:08 AMGovernment of India has recently released the data of the first round of National Family Health Survey-5, 2019-20.
![Children born between 2014 and 2019 are more malnourished than those before. (Image: PxHere)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2021-01/children_1.jpg?itok=6iSihkcF)
The unsung women fishers of Wular lake
Posted on 02 Jan, 2021 08:20 PMNestled in the north Kashmir region is Wular lake, India’s largest freshwater lake or wetland.
![The survival of many fisher households living nearby is entirely dependent on Wular lake. (Image: Manju Rawat)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2021-01/Wular%20Lake.jpg?itok=Dk9Rp0K4)
Lost to fluorosis
Posted on 21 Dec, 2020 12:33 PM“What should I do? I have been bedridden for two years now. My hands and feet do not work.
![The state needs to play a key role in identifying fluorosis as well as in developing and executing an action plan to control it. (Image: Rab Nawaz Alam)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/2020-12/fluorosis.jpg?itok=CJVPb3j1)
Women hold the key to dietary diversity
Posted on 17 Oct, 2020 04:04 PMEvidence world over shows that small scale agricultural production does very little to deal with malnutrition and food insecurity among rural poor.
![Empowering women to improve nutritional outcomes (Image Source: India Water Portal)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/farm_1.jpg?itok=-i5AcI6P)
Forests, the fast disappearing treasure troves of forest dwellers
Posted on 08 Oct, 2020 08:08 AMForests are disappearing at a fast rate in India.
![Dried mahua flowers (Image Source: Pankaj Oudhia via Wikimedia Commons)](/sites/default/files/styles/featured_articles/public/iwp/mahua.jpg?itok=9xhYqrsD)