Instead of Strengthening Infra for Food Security, Govt. Moves in Opposite Direction
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Instead of Strengthening Infra for Food Security, Govt. Moves in Opposite Direction

ByShinzani Jain

While the public infrastructure in place under the PDS and NFSA has come to the rescue in this situation of dire need, data reveals that the stock of food grains distributed during the pandemic constituted a small proportion of the stocks available for distribution in the central pool.

Declining Female Work Participation in India: What does the Periodic Labour Force Survey Tell Us?
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Declining Female Work Participation in India: What does the Periodic Labour Force Survey Tell Us?

ByEllina Samantroy, Kingshuk Sarkar and Sanjib Pradhan

Women’s participation in the workforce has hugely declined over the period 2004-05 to 2018-19. The work participation rate (WPR) of women in the 15-59 age group has declined by 19.2 percent over this period, and there is a nearly 50 percentage point gap between males and female WPRs.

‘I Can’t Earn More than Rs 125 a Day No Matter How Hard I Work’
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‘I Can’t Earn More than Rs 125 a Day No Matter How Hard I Work’

ByShalini Singh

India’s 96 million informal workers fight gender bias and pay gaps. An examination of the situation in the textiles and garments sector, where many women workers put in over 12 hours a day, six days a week, but do not have the negotiating power to demand better wages or working conditions.

Failure to Rapidly ‘Vaccinate the World’ May Lead to Covid-19 Mutations; The Rich Have Enough Money to Vaccinate the World – Two Articles
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Failure to Rapidly ‘Vaccinate the World’ May Lead to Covid-19 Mutations; The Rich Have Enough Money to Vaccinate the World – Two Articles

ByJake Johnson; and Chuck Collins

Experts warn: failure to rapidly ‘vaccinate the world’ may lead to Covid-19 mutations proliferating widely enough to make a majority of first-generation vaccines ineffective; Global billionaire wealth surged $4 trillion during pandemic, while cost of vaccinating the world is only $141.2 billion.

Walmart, Amazon and the Colonial Deindustrialisation of India
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Walmart, Amazon and the Colonial Deindustrialisation of India

ByColin Todhunter

On 8 January 2021, JACAFRE published an open letter saying that the three new farm laws will effectively make farmers and small traders of agricultural produce subservient to the interests of a few agrifood and e-commerce giants or will eradicate them completely.

Covid-19 Lockdown: Impact on Daily Wage Workers – Four Articles
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Covid-19 Lockdown: Impact on Daily Wage Workers – Four Articles

ByManavi Kapur; Deepanshu Mohan et al.; Satarupa Chakraborty; and Vivek Gupta

Household incomes in india are yet to recover from the Covid-19 lockdown shock; How daily wage workers in india suffered in the lockdown; COVID-19 laid bare the exploitation that domestic workers face; Lockdown fallout: Distress stalks garment workers in Ludhiana.