Right to food: Useful links

The following is an assortment of links on the right to food including photo albums, articles, useful websites, data sources, research materials, news articles, etc. These are my bookmarks made for personal purposes and it is quite likely that many useful websites are not indexed. What is useful though are the blurbs that may lead you to some discoveries yourself. Enjoy!

  1. Khet Majoor Samity
    Bookmarked on 05.01.2011:

    Website of the Paschim Banga Keth Mazdoor Samiti

  2. 500 Internal Server Error
    Bookmarked on 02.11.2009:

    500 Internal Server Error

  3. labourers difficult to get
    Bookmarked on 31.03.2007:

    Labourers were paid in grain earlier. But the cheap rice in ration shops makes it possible for them to buy grains easily in a day's work. Now they are diversifying their activities.

  4. The right to food
    Bookmarked on 12.11.2006:

    Biraj's article on the right to food campaign

  5. Gender and food security
    Bookmarked on 11.11.2006:

  6. Rozgar Yatra Photos
    Bookmarked on 26.09.2006:

    Photos of Rozgar Yatra for employment guarantee by Hemanshu

  7. EGA Banner Campaign – Photos
    Bookmarked on 26.09.2006:

    Photos from the Banner Campaign by Hemanshu

  8. ABRANDH – Ação Brasileira pela Nutrição e Direitos Humanos
    Bookmarked on 26.09.2006:

    Organisation dedicated to monitoring the realisation of the right to food in Brazil and other Latin American countries.

  9. Popular restaurants
    Bookmarked on 24.09.2006:

    Describes the plan for popular restaurants in one region.

  10. National employment guarantee inaction
    Bookmarked on 24.09.2006:

    Reviews EGA in various states and the importance of collective action

  11. Mexican State of the Nation Address
    Bookmarked on 03.09.2006:

    Text of President Vincent Fox' State of the Nation address as mandated by Article 69 of Mexico's Cosntitution.

  12. ICDS Litigation in Bombay HC
    Bookmarked on 01.09.2006:

  13. Rights and Liberties: The Right to Eat
    Bookmarked on 01.09.2006:

  14. Centro de Políticas Sociais
    Bookmarked on 29.08.2006:

    Has many useful articles on hunger, preschool education, and other social and political issues. They’ve a series called the map for the end of hunger that has a good collection of news and articles.

  15. Ação da Cidadania Contra a Miséria, a Fome e pela Vida
    Bookmarked on 29.08.2006:

    A group that works on policies against hunger and social exclusion. Has offices across Brazil. They use mobilisation, creation of cultural materials, etc.

  16. Democracy and right to food
    Bookmarked on 23.08.2006:

    Looks at the political and legal significance of right to food, among other things.

  17. Right to food in FAO
    Bookmarked on 20.08.2006:

    Right to food related resources in FAO – Yahoo search results

  18. George Kent's home page
    Bookmarked on 20.08.2006:

    Has worked a lot on the right to food. Has links to many articles on this subject.

  19. Fome Zero
    Bookmarked on 20.01.2006:

    The official website of the "fome zero" or Zero Hunger programme in Brazil. Has a list of programmes under it, and other useful information

  20. Drought, State and the People by Arundhati Roychaudri
    Bookmarked on 18.01.2006:

    Article by Arundathi Roychoudhuri on one of the early events of the right to food campaign in Rajasthan.

  21. Public Action to remedy hunger – Talk by Amartya Sen
    Bookmarked on 17.01.2006:

    On the importance of public action, free media and deocratic framework in the context of famines

  22. FOR HUNGER-PROOF CITIES – Online book
    Bookmarked on 16.01.2006:

  23. Right to Food article in Macroscan by Rammanohar Reddy
    Bookmarked on 03.01.2006:

  24. Right to Food Campaign
    Bookmarked on 07.12.2005:

    Arguably the best site on the right to food. Has extensive information on various campaign issues in India, articles, research tools and other resources.

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