Food security: Some points to ponder Courtesy:The Financial Express 27.11.2009 Emdadul Haque More than 71 per cent of the capital city’s nearly one million rickshaw-pullers were farmers prior to their migration to the city and taking up this health-decaying profession. Eighteen per cent of them were in abject poverty as they were landless peasants, according to a study of the Social Science Research Council of the Planning Ministry, the ‘Livelihoods of the Rickshaw Pullers of Dhaka City’. Good Earth, a non-governmental research organisation, conducted the study under the...

http://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.com/more.php?news_id=94545&date=2010-03-10 South-East Asia dominates global rice trade Courtesy: The Financial Express 10.03.2010   BANGKOK, Mar 09 (Commodity Online): South-East Asian (SEA) region comprising two of world’s largest rice exporters, Thailand and Vietnam remained as world’s top trade destination for the commodity. The food crisis of 2008 has inspired various countries in Asia to vie for status as the world’s rice bowl and many hope to be able to dethrone Thailand. Among the key members in the region, Thailand, Vietnam,...