October 16th is celebrated as World Food Day, marking the foundation of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in 1945. The theme for this year is ‘Right to…
As we approach the final Budget to be presented by this government, we demand that the Central government, at least now, acknowledges its responsibility towards ensuring the implementation of maternity…
The Right to Food Campaign is against the central government’s actions to misrepresent National Food Security Act 2013 (NFSA) as their own initiative through Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana…
Waiving off the subsidized price in no way covers even the cost of buying 5 kgs of ration from the open market The Right to Food Campaign condemns the sheer…
Food Sovereignty is a philosophy of life. It offers a vision for our collective future, and defines the principles around which we organize our daily living and co-exist with Mother Earth.…
Recently a controversy has erupted around the ‘planned mandatory fortification of Edible Oil with Vitamin A and Vitamin D and Rice with Vitamin B12, Iron and Folic Acid’, as…
While the governments chant the mantra of "leaving no one behind", it is ironic that they are abetting corporate grabbing of land and resources, which is pushing farmers out of…
A number of catchy slogans, melodramatic speeches in mask-less rallies of thousands, puerile arguments of insider- outsider, and of course the evergreen communal angles, Bengal is seeing it all. In…
Food is the basic need and fundamental right of every human being. The United Nations (1948) Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Article 25,1948) used an ecological perspective rooted in social…
We are guilty of many errors and many faults, but our worst crime is abandoning the children, neglecting the fountain of life. Many of the things we need can wait.…
The right to food campaign strongly opposes the central government's move to make Aadhaar compulsory for children under the midday meal scheme in government schools. This is nothing but an…
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