Farmers’ Suicides in Indiaby Dan MorrisonTuesday June 30, 2009 at 10:16pm, ESTOver 1,500 farmers in the rural Indian state of Chattisgarh recently committed suicide out of despair from looming debts and crop failure. The Belfast Telegraph wrote an article about these suicides, explaining how both money lending and agriculture policies contributed to the dire circumstances which drove these farmers to their deaths. Read more...
India’s Alarming Child Malnutrition Rateby Dan MorrisonThursday June 11, 2009 at 10:00pm, ESTThe New York Times recently published an article about the alarming child malnutrition rate in India. Although the Indian economy has grown tremendously in the past decade, the child malnutrition rate in India is worse than in many sub-Saharan African countries.
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