Grain Drain
Event Completed
Nutrition levels in India may soon be in for a big hit.
For the past 50 years, the country has introduced high-yielding rice and wheat varieties at breakneck speed to achieve food security. But now a study led by scientists from Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) has looked at the food value of these modern-bred grains.
The study delivers some dire warnings: the foodgrains that we eat have lost food value; instead they are accumulating toxins. Worse, by 2040, the grains will become so “impoverished” that they would worsen the country’s growing burden of noncommunicable diseases.
Join us in a webinar to know about this study and its very disturbing implications.
FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT
SUKANYA NAIR
sukanya.nair@cseindia.org
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| Indians might be eating rice and wheat that are not only low in food value, but also high on toxins: reports Down To Earth | |
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| Historical shifting in grain mineral density of landmark rice and wheat cultivars released over the past 50 years in India By: Dr. Sovan Debnath |
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COVER STORY (.pdf) SILENT FAMINE |
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Silent famine: Has India weakened its own nutritional security? |
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Silent famine: What exactly changed in India’s wheat and rice? |
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Silent famine: Can India halt its own weakening nutritional security? |
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SHAGUN Senior Correspondent Down To Earth |
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SOVAN DEBNATH Soil Scientist ICAR-Central Agroforestry Research Institute Jhansi, and lead researcher of the study |
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BISWAPATI MANDAL Former Professor Directorate of Research Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Kalyani and co-author of the study |
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ISHI KHOSLA Clinical Nutritionist consultant and writer |
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