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Ok, lets get back to the subject please.
Hunger in South Asia at levels of Ethiopia and Chad
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Yes, Pak has taken a small step for de-hyphenation. India took the same step by opening its economy in 1991.
Not just the US. It depends on what the NSG says too. the London bus bombings have pak links and so did the 9/11. Thats the problem pak is facing now. No matter how good or bad the govt in pak is, some pakistanis have been radicalised. That will be the obstacle in your request for a nuke deal.
Even I would oppose to any thing remotely involved with the military with repsect to foreign policy in pakistan. You sell military goods, your defence departments get more money, the same money will be used against India. Isnt that right.
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Gettin back to the subject at hand.
Firstly, Information on the Mid-day meal scheme.
Mid-day Meal Scheme - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
More info, with statistics.
The future of mid-day meals
ISKCON's involvement
The Hindu : Andhra Pradesh News : ISKCON to start mid-day meal scheme
Information on ISKCON's kitchens.
Unfortunately the links to photographs are broken.
ISKCON Kitchen - the biggest in the city    - The - bangalorebest.com
A black stamp on ISKCON's efforts
MP madrassas boycott Iskcon's mid-day meals - General | hindujagruti.org
Firstly, Information on the Mid-day meal scheme.
Mid-day Meal Scheme - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
More info, with statistics.
The future of mid-day meals
ISKCON's involvement
The Hindu : Andhra Pradesh News : ISKCON to start mid-day meal scheme
Information on ISKCON's kitchens.
Unfortunately the links to photographs are broken.
ISKCON Kitchen - the biggest in the city    - The - bangalorebest.com
A black stamp on ISKCON's efforts
MP madrassas boycott Iskcon's mid-day meals - General | hindujagruti.org
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Hope this link works
ISKCON Kitchen - Photo Feature - Bangalorebest.com
This the same Bangalore based ISKCON's kitchen
There is also a link above the article which says "photo feature"
As for the Madrasas, most madrasas have not raised problems. They are actually quite happy with a Hindu temple preparing the food. Yes the same evil brahmanas preparing food for hungry muslim kids.
ISKCON Kitchen - Photo Feature - Bangalorebest.com
This the same Bangalore based ISKCON's kitchen
There is also a link above the article which says "photo feature"
As for the Madrasas, most madrasas have not raised problems. They are actually quite happy with a Hindu temple preparing the food. Yes the same evil brahmanas preparing food for hungry muslim kids.
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Hunger in India states 'alarming'
India has some of the highest rates of child malnutrition in the world
Twelve Indian states have "alarming" levels of hunger while the situation is "extremely alarming" in the state of Madhya Pradesh, says a new report.
Madhya Pradesh's nutrition problems, it says, are comparable to the African countries of Ethiopia and Chad.
India has more people suffering hunger - a figure above 200 million - than any other country in the world, it says.
The report, released as part of the 2008 Global Hunger Index, ranks India at 66 out 88 countries.
'Scored worse'
The hunger index has been released by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) along with Welthungerhlife and the University of California.
It measures hunger on three indicators which include child malnutrition, rates of child mortality and the number of people who are calorie deficient.
Table of full results
The problem of hunger is measured in five categories - low, moderate, serious, alarming or extremely alarming.
The survey says that not one of the 17 states in India that were studied were in the low or moderate hunger category.
"Despite years of robust economic growth, India scored worse than nearly 25 sub-Saharan African countries and all of South Asia, except Bangladesh," the report says.
The best performing state was Punjab, which has a 'serious' hunger problem and does less well than developing countries such as Gabon, Vietnam and Honduras.
About 60% children in Madhya Pradesh state are malnourished
"When Indian states are compared to countries in the Global Hunger Index, [the central Indian state of] Madhya Pradesh ranks between Ethiopia and Chad," it says.
India is long known to have some of the highest rates of child malnutrition and mortality in under-fives in the world.
According to the Indian government statistics two years ago, around 60% of more than 10 million children in the state were malnourished.
Nutrition experts say the abysmal record is due to an inadequate access to food, poor feeding practices and poor childcare practices in India.
And now the rise in the global food prices has reduced the food-buying capacity of many poor families, making their situation worse.
In the past year food prices have increased significantly, but people's incomes haven't kept pace, forcing many families further into hunger, experts say.
The report says "improving child nutrition is of utmost urgency in most Indian states".
"All states also need to improve strategies to facilitate inclusive economic growth, ensure food sufficiency and reduce child mortality," it adds.
India has some of the highest rates of child malnutrition in the world
Twelve Indian states have "alarming" levels of hunger while the situation is "extremely alarming" in the state of Madhya Pradesh, says a new report.
Madhya Pradesh's nutrition problems, it says, are comparable to the African countries of Ethiopia and Chad.
India has more people suffering hunger - a figure above 200 million - than any other country in the world, it says.
The report, released as part of the 2008 Global Hunger Index, ranks India at 66 out 88 countries.
'Scored worse'
The hunger index has been released by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) along with Welthungerhlife and the University of California.
It measures hunger on three indicators which include child malnutrition, rates of child mortality and the number of people who are calorie deficient.
Table of full results
The problem of hunger is measured in five categories - low, moderate, serious, alarming or extremely alarming.
The survey says that not one of the 17 states in India that were studied were in the low or moderate hunger category.
"Despite years of robust economic growth, India scored worse than nearly 25 sub-Saharan African countries and all of South Asia, except Bangladesh," the report says.
The best performing state was Punjab, which has a 'serious' hunger problem and does less well than developing countries such as Gabon, Vietnam and Honduras.
About 60% children in Madhya Pradesh state are malnourished
"When Indian states are compared to countries in the Global Hunger Index, [the central Indian state of] Madhya Pradesh ranks between Ethiopia and Chad," it says.
India is long known to have some of the highest rates of child malnutrition and mortality in under-fives in the world.
According to the Indian government statistics two years ago, around 60% of more than 10 million children in the state were malnourished.
Nutrition experts say the abysmal record is due to an inadequate access to food, poor feeding practices and poor childcare practices in India.
And now the rise in the global food prices has reduced the food-buying capacity of many poor families, making their situation worse.
In the past year food prices have increased significantly, but people's incomes haven't kept pace, forcing many families further into hunger, experts say.
The report says "improving child nutrition is of utmost urgency in most Indian states".
"All states also need to improve strategies to facilitate inclusive economic growth, ensure food sufficiency and reduce child mortality," it adds.
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^^^ And in Pakistan the Government has said that the food intake of 32 million people has gone down. Its not looking good on either side of the border, but the food shortages in Pakistan especially are honestly quite ridiculous, given the the fact that we are an agricultural country.
Its not like we do not have the arable land to grow food, its entirely all due to improper planning and poor and outdated farming methods.
The idea of corporate farms has been pushed by both Musharraf and the current GoP, and I have no objections to that provided they utilize land that is not being used for farming currently. Seems like the UAE is going to be amongst the first to start this:
Its not like we do not have the arable land to grow food, its entirely all due to improper planning and poor and outdated farming methods.
The idea of corporate farms has been pushed by both Musharraf and the current GoP, and I have no objections to that provided they utilize land that is not being used for farming currently. Seems like the UAE is going to be amongst the first to start this:
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corporate farming is not a one-glove-fits-all answer, especially for south asia.
There should be a comprehensive strategy to improve yield, and curb hoarding and illegal smuggling.
Steps like improving the irrigation system, cleaning of irrigation drains and cannals, subsidies on fertilizers and pest control, and stopping encroachment on fertile lands by property developers should all go hand in hand.
p.s. Along with some corporate farms, where they may be beneficial.
There should be a comprehensive strategy to improve yield, and curb hoarding and illegal smuggling.
Steps like improving the irrigation system, cleaning of irrigation drains and cannals, subsidies on fertilizers and pest control, and stopping encroachment on fertile lands by property developers should all go hand in hand.
p.s. Along with some corporate farms, where they may be beneficial.
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To counter problems of global hunger, try spuds
By Elisabeth Rosenthal
October 26, 2008
VITORIA-GASTEIZ, Spain: With governments having trouble feeding the growing number of hungry poor and grain prices fluctuating wildly, food scientists are proposing a novel solution for the global food crisis: Let them eat potatoes.
Grains like wheat and rice have long been staples of diets in most of the world and the main currency of food aid. Now, a number of scientists, nutritionists and aid specialists are increasingly convinced that the humble spud should be playing a much larger role to ensure a steady supply of food in the developing world.
Poor countries could grow more potatoes, they say, to supplement or even replace grains that are most often shipped in from far away and are subject to severe market gyrations.
Even before a sharp price spike earlier this year, governments in countries from China to Peru to Malawi had begun urging both growing and eating potatoes as a way to ensure food security and build rural income.
Production in China rose 50 percent from 2005 to 2007, and the government has called potatoes "a way out of poverty." In Peru, where potatoes are traditionally part of the highland diet, President Alan García has led a campaign to promote potato eating in cities. Schools, prisons and army canteens are serving papapan, bread made with potatoes, helping increase potato consumption 20 percent this year.
A decade ago, the vast majority of potatoes were grown and eaten in the developed world, mostly in Europe and the Americas. Today, China and India - neither big potato-eating countries in the past - rank first and third, respectively, in global potato production. And in 2005, developing countries produced a majority of the world's potatoes for the first time.
"Increasingly, the potato is being seen as a vital food-security crop and a substitute for costly grain imports," said NeBambi Lutaladio, a roots and tubers specialist at the UN Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome. "Potato consumption is expanding strongly in developing countries, where the potato is an increasingly important source of food, employment and income."
Though the price of grains has receded in recent months from historic highs, grains are still far more expensive than just two years ago. The UN agency continues to strongly encourage countries to diversify into potato production, Lutaladio said, adding: "The world economy has entered a phase of wild swings. New and even more severe high price events could be just around the corner."
And so the potato's image is shifting from that of a food fit for peasants and pigs (and associated mostly with a devastating famine in Ireland) to a serious nutritional aid and an object of scientific study. When the United Nations announced last year that 2008 would be the Year of the Potato, few took it seriously. That was before grain prices doubled between early 2007 and spring 2008, and the UN World Food Program announced that it needed an extra half-billion dollars to buy grain.
Pamela Anderson, director of the International Potato Center, a global scientific research center in Lima, said that as recently last year, the most common question she fielded concerned her favorite potato recipe. "Now the food system is so fragile that people have stopped laughing. People are asking, 'How can potatoes help solve the problem?"' Anderson was one of dozens of international scientists who met this month in the heart of Basque country at Neiker Tecnalia, a 200-year-old agricultural research center. Their goal: to discuss advances in potato farming, like the development of pest- and drought-resistant strains that could be used in poorer countries.
Potatoes are a good source of protein, starch, vitamins and nutrients like zinc and iron. As a crop, they require less energy and water to grow than wheat, taking just three months from planting to harvest.
Since they are heavy and do not transport well, they are not generally traded on world financial markets, making their price less vulnerable to speculation. They are not generally used to produce biofuels, a new use for food crops that has helped drive up grain prices. When grain prices skyrocketed, potato prices remained stable.
Beyond that, potato yields can be easily increased in most of the world, where they are grown inefficiently and in small numbers.
Thanks to the "green revolution" of the 1970s, yields of wheat, rice and corn jumped more than 50 percent in a decade as fertilizers and new planting techniques were used. Potatoes never got that kind of attention.
In poor countries, potato yields are still relatively low, at just one to five tons of potatoes per hectare, or about two and a half acres, less than 15 percent the yield in the developed world.
But potatoes have limitations from the perspective of traditional food aid programs, which buy or receive food from where it can be produced cheaply and efficiently and send it to where it is needed.
Because they spoil easily and are heavy to ship, groups like the World Food Program avoid them. Pound for pound, they contain less protein than wheat, although, looked at another way, an acre of potatoes yields more protein than an acre of wheat.
"They are quite perishable, especially in hotter climates; they sprout and rot quite quickly," said Tina van den Briel, a nutrition specialist at the World Food Program. She added that potatoes were currently a staple food in very few countries, although they were widely used in stews.
"Moving from rice to potatoes is a big leap for people," she said. Nonetheless, the agency has made it a priority to increase production of food for aid in the countries where it is needed, both to lessen transit costs when fuel costs are high and to aid local economies.
By Elisabeth Rosenthal
October 26, 2008
VITORIA-GASTEIZ, Spain: With governments having trouble feeding the growing number of hungry poor and grain prices fluctuating wildly, food scientists are proposing a novel solution for the global food crisis: Let them eat potatoes.
Grains like wheat and rice have long been staples of diets in most of the world and the main currency of food aid. Now, a number of scientists, nutritionists and aid specialists are increasingly convinced that the humble spud should be playing a much larger role to ensure a steady supply of food in the developing world.
Poor countries could grow more potatoes, they say, to supplement or even replace grains that are most often shipped in from far away and are subject to severe market gyrations.
Even before a sharp price spike earlier this year, governments in countries from China to Peru to Malawi had begun urging both growing and eating potatoes as a way to ensure food security and build rural income.
Production in China rose 50 percent from 2005 to 2007, and the government has called potatoes "a way out of poverty." In Peru, where potatoes are traditionally part of the highland diet, President Alan García has led a campaign to promote potato eating in cities. Schools, prisons and army canteens are serving papapan, bread made with potatoes, helping increase potato consumption 20 percent this year.
A decade ago, the vast majority of potatoes were grown and eaten in the developed world, mostly in Europe and the Americas. Today, China and India - neither big potato-eating countries in the past - rank first and third, respectively, in global potato production. And in 2005, developing countries produced a majority of the world's potatoes for the first time.
"Increasingly, the potato is being seen as a vital food-security crop and a substitute for costly grain imports," said NeBambi Lutaladio, a roots and tubers specialist at the UN Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome. "Potato consumption is expanding strongly in developing countries, where the potato is an increasingly important source of food, employment and income."
Though the price of grains has receded in recent months from historic highs, grains are still far more expensive than just two years ago. The UN agency continues to strongly encourage countries to diversify into potato production, Lutaladio said, adding: "The world economy has entered a phase of wild swings. New and even more severe high price events could be just around the corner."
And so the potato's image is shifting from that of a food fit for peasants and pigs (and associated mostly with a devastating famine in Ireland) to a serious nutritional aid and an object of scientific study. When the United Nations announced last year that 2008 would be the Year of the Potato, few took it seriously. That was before grain prices doubled between early 2007 and spring 2008, and the UN World Food Program announced that it needed an extra half-billion dollars to buy grain.
Pamela Anderson, director of the International Potato Center, a global scientific research center in Lima, said that as recently last year, the most common question she fielded concerned her favorite potato recipe. "Now the food system is so fragile that people have stopped laughing. People are asking, 'How can potatoes help solve the problem?"' Anderson was one of dozens of international scientists who met this month in the heart of Basque country at Neiker Tecnalia, a 200-year-old agricultural research center. Their goal: to discuss advances in potato farming, like the development of pest- and drought-resistant strains that could be used in poorer countries.
Potatoes are a good source of protein, starch, vitamins and nutrients like zinc and iron. As a crop, they require less energy and water to grow than wheat, taking just three months from planting to harvest.
Since they are heavy and do not transport well, they are not generally traded on world financial markets, making their price less vulnerable to speculation. They are not generally used to produce biofuels, a new use for food crops that has helped drive up grain prices. When grain prices skyrocketed, potato prices remained stable.
Beyond that, potato yields can be easily increased in most of the world, where they are grown inefficiently and in small numbers.
Thanks to the "green revolution" of the 1970s, yields of wheat, rice and corn jumped more than 50 percent in a decade as fertilizers and new planting techniques were used. Potatoes never got that kind of attention.
In poor countries, potato yields are still relatively low, at just one to five tons of potatoes per hectare, or about two and a half acres, less than 15 percent the yield in the developed world.
But potatoes have limitations from the perspective of traditional food aid programs, which buy or receive food from where it can be produced cheaply and efficiently and send it to where it is needed.
Because they spoil easily and are heavy to ship, groups like the World Food Program avoid them. Pound for pound, they contain less protein than wheat, although, looked at another way, an acre of potatoes yields more protein than an acre of wheat.
"They are quite perishable, especially in hotter climates; they sprout and rot quite quickly," said Tina van den Briel, a nutrition specialist at the World Food Program. She added that potatoes were currently a staple food in very few countries, although they were widely used in stews.
"Moving from rice to potatoes is a big leap for people," she said. Nonetheless, the agency has made it a priority to increase production of food for aid in the countries where it is needed, both to lessen transit costs when fuel costs are high and to aid local economies.
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