NITI Ayog's SDG report flags huge worries about hunger, poverty in India
Poor show by 25 states on food security and malnutrition Sustainable Development Index 2019
As told to Parliament (December 9, 2022): 25% Indians are multi-dimensionally poor, says minister
Multi-Dimensional Poverty Index captures multiple and simultaneous deprivations faced by households across the three macro dimensions of health, …
'Half of India without significant wealth'
Inequality hurts democracy, which is why governments need to intervene and regulate to fix this trend: Lucas Chancel, lead editor of World …
The more Asians migrate to cities, the more it will help tigers, says study
Researchers from a prominent non-profit feel that Asia's increasing urbanisation and rapid demographic transition could mean that tiger range …
The curious case of missing children at anganwadis
The names of malnourished children are missing from the registers at several anganwadis in Madhya Pradesh
Environment: A People's Perspective
Justice is a central component of the conceptual transition from human development to sustainable human development and a similar concern for …
Past lessons, future strategies
Studying the history of human interaction with nature can be very useful in formulating resource management policies. It can also provide a …
Vertigo at the summit
The forthcoming World Summit for Social Development has already polarised North-South social imperatives
The poorest shun MGNREGA
Participation of Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes in the scheme has halved in five years
Rise of livestock
Agriculture sector undergoes a historic change as livestock surpasses the economy of food grain
Below Poverty Line census: fudging figures?
A survey currently underway in states to calculate the number of below poverty line households is being opposed tooth and nail by civil society …
Let decentralised renewable energy be the solution to the Northeast’s energy woes
Decentralised renewable energy addresses many of the concerns of the energy-deficit region, as discussed in the National Seminar on Access to …
India’s invisibilisation of donkey labour is rooted in the caste system
Donkeys are an integral part of livelihood of many marginalised sections; though donkeys play an important role in building cities, they are …
G20 Summit: Oxfam urges action on COVID-19, climate, poverty and hunger
G20 leaders have a choice to either take urgent action or continue what they are doing, Oxfam says
Can India reduce food wastage with community refrigerators?
Community refrigerators have helped reduce food wastage in the UAE, Germany and France. India too can popularise and scale up the initiative
Look back at the decade: It’s a tinderbox world
Growth has stumped environment. The decade of 2020 is the last chance we have to walk the talk and make it right
A political thought for food
Global parliamentarians are forming a multilateral body to reform the agrifood system
Leprosy, scabies and yaws — Togo’s neglected tropical skin diseases need attention
Stigma & absenteeism associated with skin diseases should encourage health authorities make the treatment of these diseases free of charge
Water, Africa’s Gold: Pan-continental shortage forces Africans to spend more on water than food
Women and children in Africa spend 4.5 million years collecting water every year: A pan-continental shortage has made hunt for water a daily …
Rapid urbanisation: Where do urban poor stand?
Delhi is the sixth-largest metropolis in the world. And yet, a third of its residences are part of slums with no basic resources
COVID-19 aftershocks: This is an economic collapse triggered by a health crisis
Mehrotra is visiting professor, Centre for Development, University of Bath, UK, and former economics professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi
Mass poverty is back in India
After 45 years, the world’s fastest poverty-reducing country adds the maximum poor in a year
Mozambique case study shows that poverty is about much more than income
Representing poverty as a well-defined objective condition focuses attention on symptoms and risks diverting attention away from underlying …
Rural youth population rising in agriculturally rich areas, but …
A new, global report explains why unemployment rate among rural men and women has tripled since 2011-12
Drought but why: How poverty is aggravated
Study shows during drought years in Rajasthan, the vulnerability of rural households to poverty increases