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The paper presents a case for a phased rolling out of direct benefits transfer (DBT) for Food in India. By studying all states and Union Territories on three broad parameters: demographics, performance of the existing Public Distribution System (PDS), and current state of banking infrastructure,...
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: The government may also consider, in the longer run, substituting the existing input subsidy support for agriculture …
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malnutrition as high priority. The Nutrition Index (NI) presented in this paper has been designed to assess the effectiveness of … actions taken towards achieving this goal. The Nutrition Index reflects complementary dimensions of a country's nutrition … and the Caribbean, a nearly satisfactory nutrition situation has been achieved. The nutrition situation is still bad in …
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potentials in agriculture and food systems in Africa for enhanced food security. For maximum impact, the Special Initiative "One … World - No Hunger" of BMZ needs to take note of the whole African landscape of actions in agriculture and food security … and serve in coherent and complementary ways to increase food and nutrition security and sustainable agricultural …
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food and nutrition security. Innovations for improved market functioning and avoidance of price shocks require information … reduction. More attention to innovative social protection and direct nutrition intervention programs is needed, including …
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