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Publications Food Security Atlas of Rural Bihar Despite
India’s recent record of high rates of economic growth, it is a major concern
that growth is not proportionately contributing to reduction of poverty and
malnutrition. The UN World Food Programme (WFP) and the MS Swaminathan
Research Foundation (MSSRF) earlier collaborated in analysing the food
insecurity situation in different states in the country. Using chosen
indicators to map the relative standing of states with regard to food
security, MSSRF and WFP prepared three Food Insecurity Atlases of India in
2001 (Rural), 2002 (Urban) and 2004 (Sustainability of Food Security).The
atlases raised the bar in the analysis and understanding of food security
across states. Food Security Atlas of Rural Chattisgarh Food
Security has now taken centre stage in policy discussions around the world.
Along with issues of food production there are also clearly issues of access
of the poor to food. In
India, despite high GDP growth rates over the past decade or so, the record
in reducing hunger is not so impressive. This brings to the fore the question
of inclusive growth, particularly the inclusion of the most deprived sections
of our society and regions of our country into benefiting from the growth
process. Increased access to food comes forward as a
basic component of inclusive growth.
Food Security Atlas of Rural Orissa India is home to more than a quarter of hungry people in the world. The effect of climate change on agriculture will adversely affect Indian agriculture, thereby making food availability scarce. The existing production levels barely manage to keep pace with the growing population, a problem that is aggravated by high disparities in resources and purchasing power.
Report on the State of Food Insecurity in Rural India (December 2008) The
M S Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF) and the World Food Programme
(WFP) initiated in the year 2000 an exercise to map the food security
situation in rural and urban India. The factors governing the sustainability
of food security were also studied.
Strengthening Pre-School Education through ICDS - A success story in Madhya Pradesh (2001) Approximately 170 million of India’s population is under six years of age. Thirteen million of these children are expected to receive pre-school education through Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS). The ultimate delivery of this non-formal education depends on a cadre of over 500,000 women workers. Their dedication to the programme is admirable, but many of them are at low levels of literacy themselves or are illiterate. There is therefore a need to help these women perform their education role in spite of their literacy level and to give to all of them a good model of interactive pre-school education. A pilot project was conducted in response to the above need and the initial results have been very encouraging. This booklet is a documentation of the project.
Food Insecurity Atlas of Rural India The "The Food Insecurity Atlas of Rural India", has been jointly prepared by WFP and M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation. It is the result of a comprehensive food insecurity analysis. The Atlas attempts to explain the multifaceted character of food insecurity in India and identifies the 'hot spots' of food insecurity.
Enabling Development: Food Assistance in South Asia The book is based on inputs from eminent authors from all SAARC countries, since South Asia is home to more chronically food insecure people than any other part of the world. This book is the first to take stock of the current situation of hunger and malnutrition in the region and examines ways of dealing with it. It offers both short and long-term solutions to hunger through food assistance programmes based on successful experiences within the region.
The Health and Nutrition Situation of the Mother and Child in Banswara A planning tool for the supervisors in the Hajo Soru project in the district of Banswara in Rajasthan. Very often, data is collected, compiled sent up for reporting and the exercise is finished there. However, there is a need to use the data collected for improving the service delivery and improving the use of services by the community for whom it is meant. Nine key indicators, crucial for realizing the project goals, have been identified and elaborated upon with data.
Making a Difference - A document on a project for tribal adolescent girls in Dhar District, Madhya Pradesh (1997). Adolescent girls face more problems than boys, largely due to socio-cultural factors. Adolescent girls are deprived of adequate health care, good nutrition and opportunity for schooling. Stunted anaemic girls with inadequate knowledge of personal care, family planning or child rearing practices enter into marriage and motherhood, thus perpetuating the problems of malnutrition and poverty to the coming generation. Although women are the major actors in human resource development, they are neither adequately recognised nor supported by their families or the society. Women represent the major segment of the poor, the malnourished and the illiterate. The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) commissioned a project, ‘Empowerment of Tribal Adolescent Girls’, to empower tribal adolescent girls. The project was implemented in the Dhar district of Madhya Pradesh in four ICDS blocks, Gandhwani, Nalcha, Sardarpur and Tirla from December 1994 to January 1996.
Adolescent Girls in Tribal Integrated Child Development Services (1994). An innovative pilot project in Jhabua, Madhya Pradesh (funded by USAID) to reach women earlier and provide some missed opportunities to girls in their adolescence. Through this project, young girls received training on aspects of self care, marriageable age and infant care. WFP is increasingly focusing its attention towards women's development in the most deprived parts of the country.
Strengthening Project Management in ICDS A UNESCO/WFP collaborative project to attempt to enhance the programme management and supervisory skills of ICDS Supervisors and Child Development Project Officers (CDPOs), strengthening the training capability for providing on-the-job training and evolve a pattern for on-the-job training. Strengthening early childhood care and development was a crucial element of the project. The project was implemented in four ICDS projects: Sardarpur, Nalchha, Gandhwani and Tirla of Dhar district, Madhya Pradesh.
Shared Commitment - Initiating early complementary feeding and increasing community participation in Banswara, Rajasthan. For over two decades WFP has been supporting, primarily through the provision of the supplementary nutrition component, India’s premier initiative for child development - ICDS. Several mechanisms have been established to monitor and evaluate the progress of the supplementary nutrition component of ICDS. However, it is the recognition that the provision of nutritional supplements, though necessary, is not sufficient to improve the health and nutritional status of the population, that spurred WFP to adopt a more comprehensive approach towards strengthening ICDS. A project was initiated 1994 having the twin objective of early initiation of complementary feeding and increasing community participation in ICDS. Conducted as a campaign, this project once again reinforced the conviction that catalysing all social developmental activities at the village level is a necessity.
Indiamix - Development of a low cost blended food (1997). In 1994, WFP realized that a reduction in funding for provision of food aid to India was inevitable and being interested in promoting sustainability and local capacity, examined the feasibility and cost-effectiveness of producing in India a nutritious supplementary food for ICDS. The result of WFP’s investigations was ‘Indiamix’, a specially designed, wholesome, low cost food that provides all required supplementary nutrients. The most important advantage of Indiamix is its lower cost per participant for the same nutritional benefit as imported supplementary foods. This document provides useful information on the experience of enabling wider use of products like ‘Indiamix’.
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