surplus food at Atlantic‚ then millions of people are dying from hunger in Africa. What kind of justice is this? Is this called free economy‚ is this called brotherhood‚ is this called spreading peace all over the world? Food security is also a difficult issue like this matter. Bangladesh is one of the developing countries of 3rd world and half of its people can not get food twice a day. Though Bangladesh is a agricultural country‚ still it has to import rice‚ wheat‚ oil etc (staple food). Market
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Food Security Bill: Good politics to deliver bad economics A bill duly tabled in Parliament promises to give legal right to subsidised food to two-thirds of the country’s 1.2 billion population. The ambitious proposal should be seen in the context of India being home to roughly one third of the world’s poor; where over 70 per cent of children are malnourished and about 10 million or more people die of chronic hunger or hunger-related diseases every year. The Food Security Bill‚ the UPA-II’s
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The food security bill promises to alleviate hunger and guarantee very cheap food to India’s poor but there are concerns it has not been properly thought through and could become unsustainable. P. K. Joshi‚ South Asia director of the International Food Policy Research Institute‚ a think-tank headquartered in Washington‚ talked to The Wall Street Journal about the pros and cons of the bill and what it will mean for India. Edited excerpts: The Wall Street Journal: The food security bill sounds like
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FOOD SECURITY BILL:- The National Food Security Bill 2011 promises a legal right to cheap food for the poorest in the country. While India currently provides subsidized wheat and rice to the poor‚ this legislation would make food cheaper and provide more of it to poor families. The bill aims to cover 75 percent of rural households and 50 percent of urban households. So far‚ discussion of the bill in the Indian media has focused on the cost of providing more cheap food – the bill would increase
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in the quest to increase food production and reduce its cost. In order to achieve this‚ relevant concepts and examples will be discussed and a conclusion will then be drawn from the discourse. Anderson (2009) notes that obtaining enough food is an important concern for every nation in the world‚ and in some countries food shortage is an extremely serious problem. Worldwide‚ about 840 million people‚ or about 14 percent of the total population‚ do not have adequate food. These people suffer from
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The Role of Food According to my Nutrition through the Life Cycle textbook‚ food is an essential need for humans and provides nutrients‚ energy in the form of calories‚ and other substances that are necessary for both good health and growth (Brown‚ 2). Even though this concept is very straightforward and well known among everyone‚ it is important to understand that there is more to food than meets the eye. Besides its vital role in ensuring that the energy demands of the human body’s continuous
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and Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).[2]Kalam is popularly known as the Missile Man of India for his work on the development ofballistic missile and launch vehicle technology.[3] He played a pivotal organizational‚ technical and political role in India ’s Pokhran-II nuclear tests in 1998‚ the first since the original nuclear test by India in 1974. Some scientific experts have however called Kalam a man with no authority over nuclear physics but who just carried on the works of Homi J. Bhabha andVikram
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history of America young people have always played a crucial role in politics. The famous writer Srirangam Srinivas wrote‚ “Our country is not in the hands of lazy and corrupted old politicians‚ this country is ours i.e. youth”. Young people between the ages 18 to 25 are the future of this country and its political system. The young people of America have a responsibility to be involved with politics and with their civic duties. The youth in America must be involved in politics to ensure that America
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ROLE OF YOUTH IN POLITICS Politics is science to manage the country or state. Youth is young blood of nation and active worker of nation. So‚ it is very necessary and demand of nation that he must take all the responsibility for managing whole country. Without entering in politics‚ he can not do any welfare activity at large scale because‚ after getting fund he can do any thing but who will give to him. But‚ If youth joins politics and make his own Govt. with help of democratic voting system. He
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The Role of Christian Youth in Nation Building National Identity The notion of nation-building presupposes that the nation itself is in need of building; or rebuilding‚ in some cases. The term nation-building in its original sense referred to newly-independent nations in Africa to reshape colonial territories that had been carved out by colonial powers without regard to ethnic or other boundaries. This would later include the creation of paraphernalia such as flags‚ national anthems‚ national
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