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 …

Poverty@25, India@70

Poverty remains conditional to one's social status

A political thought for food

Global parliamentarians are forming a multilateral body to reform the agrifood system

Mass poverty is back in India

After 45 years, the world’s fastest poverty-reducing country adds the maximum poor in a year  

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

Victim of its success

MGNREGA blamed for causing labour shortage; cut in budgetary support likely

Neocolonial Raj has taken root in India

Inequality has been widening rapidly in the country since the 1990s

Every third child in the world is poor: UN

Children are more prone to poverty than adults across the world

GDP obsession

If the growth rate is so great, why are the poor not getting a taste of it?

“Rich countries need to consume and produce less animal-source foods”

World Food Prize winner Lawrence Haddad on the impact of climate change on food systems

COVID-19: A generation interrupted

Children born today might be the next development challenge for the world

Many more may fall into poverty trap and several may not escape it

Here’s how poverty, political myopia and ecological degradation are inter-related

Employed but poor

Poverty among employed people underscores the need for a new strategy on job creation

Zero hour

भूख से होने वाली मौतों को स्वीकार क्यों नहीं करते 'हम'

सरकार पहले तो मौत को भूख के बजाय किसी दूसरी तकनीकी वजह से बताती है, बाद में भूख से लड़ने के लिए चलाई जा ...

भारत में गरीबों की गिनती बंद, 2030 तक दुनिया कैसे हासिल करेगी शून्य गरीबी लक्ष्य

गरीबी पर केंद्रित विश्व बैंक की ताजा रिपोर्ट में भारत में गरीबी के आंकड़ों के गायब होने की बात कही है, ऐसे में दुनिया ...

कृषि संपन्न क्षेत्रों में बढ़ रही है ग्रामीण युवाओं की आबादी, लेकिन …

ग्रामीण युवाओं पर जारी एक नई वैश्विक रिपोर्ट में कहा गया है कि 2011-12 से ग्रामीण पुरुष व महिलाओं के बीच बेरोजगारी दर में ...

Nepal's poor carry it off

As the Himalayan country's forestry scheme for the poor reaps rich dividends, its government entrusts more degraded areas to the underprivileged. …

Grains of doubt

Rural affairs ministry rejects wage payment in kind under rural job scheme

Feeble Rights

Rights-based governance has not been accompanied by effective delivery mechanism

आंकड़ों से किसे और क्यों लगता है डर

मौजूदा समय में इस संगठन के बहुत से सर्वेक्षणों को कूड़ेदान में डाल दिया जाता है, शायद इसलिए कि उसके नतीजे राजनीतिक नेतृत्व को ...

Every 30 hours, world gets a new billionaire, a million new poor

The question no longer is why poor remain poor, but why rich get richer this fast  

Giving birth to a poverty-free world

Reduction of poverty among children is central to a world without extreme poverty  

‘One in three couldn’t afford food year-round in 2020’

Pandemic-induced poverty and rise in food prices keep healthy diet out of reach of three billion people