scholarly journals Recasting Food

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Nakkeeran N ◽  
Sushrut Jadhav ◽  
Aruna Bhattacharya ◽  
Sunil Gamit ◽  
Chetan Mehta ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Child Development ◽  
Fold Increase ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
School Education ◽  
Illustrative Case ◽  
Structural Factors ◽  
Supplementary Food ◽  
Anganwadi Worker ◽  
The Government ◽  
Supplementary Nutrition

Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) is the principal programme operating in India to address issues around child development, malnutrition and pre-school education. A package of services – including the Supplementary Nutrition Programme (SNP), pre-school education, immunization, health check-ups, referral services, and nutrition and health education – are provided through an Anganwadi Centre (AWC) with an Anganwadi Worker (AWW) and an Anganwadi Helper (AWH) for roughly every one thousand people. From the mid-1990s, there have been successive efforts on the part of the Government of India to universalize ICDS, and there has been a multi-fold increase in funds allocated to this programme between the 8th Five-Year Plan (1992–93 to 1996–97) and the 12th Five-Year Plan (2012–17) (1-2). However, the utilization of all services under ICDS continues to be grossly low. Close to 75 percent of children aged 0–71 months in the areas covered by AWCs did not receive any supplementary food from the centres, and less than 12 percent of children received supplementary food ‘almost daily’. For children aged 36–71 months this figure is 15.5 percent. More than 80 percent of children were not weighed at all. It has been reported that children belonging to economically backward and socially marginalised families, including Dalit, tribal, and religious minorities, are excluded from utilising these services through unfavourable institutional rules and structural factors. Equally, members of well-off families do not use services provided by AWCs – especially the SNP – for under-6 children. A multi-sited ethnographic study was conducted in four villages in Gujarat in order to identify the reasons behind poor utilisation of AWCs, especially the SNP services.  The study aimed to understand everyday experience of households around the SNP in rural settings and an opportunity to study AWCs as institutions embedded in the context of village cultural life. The authors hypothesise that a study focusing on AWCs could serve as an illustrative case to highlight challenges in implementing other entitlement-based programmes.

Whose ‘fault’ is it? Becoming homeless in Singapore

Urban Studies ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 55 (16) ◽  
pp. 3579-3595 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harry Tan ◽  
Helen Forbes-Mewett
Keyword(s):  
Older People ◽  
Homeless People ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Structural Factors ◽  
Causal Explanations ◽  
Structural Problems ◽  
Subsequent Loss ◽  
The Government ◽  
Work Family ◽  
Specific Pathway

Singapore is a country that prides itself on providing cheap affordable public housing for its citizens. Nonetheless, the increased visibility of older people sleeping rough in public spaces has led to a contentious debate in recent years about why they are becoming homeless. The article first examines this debate from the different interpretations offered by the government, the national print media and local internet blogs and forums. Homelessness tends to be invariably attributed to personal problems for which the government is not held responsible or to broader structural problems resulting from government policies and bureaucracy. Our findings, from a two-year ethnographic study of older homeless people in Singapore, show that such one-sided causal explanations of homelessness are fundamentally flawed and provide inadequate explanations of why older people become homeless. Rather than asking whose fault is it, we adopt the pathways approach to highlight homelessness as a process involving personal decisions as well as structural factors. The article thus presents two key findings of our research. First, older people in our study did not become homeless from a specific pathway but encountered multiple pathways during their lives. Second, these older people began to sleep rough when the multiple pathways led to the weakening and subsequent loss of structural resources from work, family and friends and government assistance in Singapore.

Mechanisms of COVID-19 Mental Health Burden

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Bulbulia ◽  
Sofia Piven ◽  
Fiona Barlow ◽  
Don E. Davis ◽  
Lara Greaves ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Psychological Distress ◽  
Fold Increase ◽  
Health Satisfaction ◽  
Civic Attitudes ◽  
Social Belonging ◽  
Pervasive Health ◽  
The Government ◽  
Health Burdens ◽  
Political Economic

New Zealand's COVID-19 lockdown in March and April 2020 was among the world's most stringent. Similar to other countries, New Zealand's lockdown occurred amidst pervasive health and economic uncertainties. However, New Zealanders experienced comparatively less psychological distress. To test theories of pandemic distress mitigation, we use national longitudinal responses with pre-COVID-19 baselines and systematically quantify psychological distress trajectories within the same individuals during the lockdown (pre-COVID-19 = 2018/2019; stringent-lockdown = March/April 2020; N = 940). Most distress indicators were minimally elevated. However, there was a three-fold increase in feelings of worthlessness. Neither satisfaction with the government, nor business-satisfaction, nor a sense of neighbourhood community were effective distress defences. Perceived social-belonging and health-satisfaction mitigated feelings of worthlessness. A silver lining was a relief from feelings of effort, which social-belonging fostered. That social-belonging and health satisfaction could quell serious distress among those low in government confidence, low in business satisfaction, and low neighbourhood community proves that distress mitigation is possible without shifting a population's general political, economic, and civic attitudes. Protection of income and containment of infectious disease threat reduces mental health burdens. Though feelings of worthlessness surge during lockdown, such feelings attenuate from interpersonal belonging with people one already knows.

Utilisation of wild growing yams as supplementary nutrition and its impact on the dry forest ecosystem in north-western Madagascar

2004 ◽  
Vol 155 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 80-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
Klaus Ackermann
Keyword(s):  
Forest Ecosystem ◽  
Rainy Season ◽  
Secondary Forest ◽  
Local Population ◽  
Dry Forest ◽  
Dry Forests ◽  
Supplementary Food ◽  
Wild Yams ◽  
Supplementary Nutrition ◽  
North Western

Wild growing yams (Dioscorea spp.) are an important supplementary food in Madagascar, especially during periods of rice shortage in the rainy season. Yams grow in dry forests and there is a particularly high occurrence of yam tubers in recently burned, open secondary forest formations. The study found that the uncontrolled harvest of yams can contribute to the degradation of dry forests due to the high quantity of wild yams harvested by the local population and the widespread practice of intentionally burning forests to increase yams production.

A COMPARATIVE STUDY ON THE PERFORMANCE OF STUDENTS OF PRIVATE SCHOOLS, GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS SITUATED IN URBAN & RURAL AREAS OF HARYANA IN THE SECONDARY EXAMINATIONS CONDUCTED BY THE BOARD OF SCHOOL EDUCATION HARYANA IN 2020.

2020 ◽  
pp. 38-43
Author(s):  
Balkar Singh
Keyword(s):  
Private Schools ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
School Education ◽  
Government Schools ◽  
Poor Students ◽  
Exam Preparation ◽  
Urban City ◽  
Urban Rural ◽  
The Government ◽  
Exam Result

The capability or calibre cannot be judged based on Results, as it depends on the student to student & also the examination is testing of knowledge of a student, for the whole year in two or three hours. In July 2020 the exam result of the secondary standard was declared by the Board of School Education Haryana, Bhiwani and there is a discussion about topper & the schools in which these toppers were studying & strategy of these toppers regarding exam preparation, their interviews & photos were published in the Newspapers, why not? It must be but in this spark light, there is some darkness behind this. Everyone is congratulating these students, as they are studied from the Private Schools of the Urban City areas of the Haryana, a few are from the most educated families, whose parents their selves are teachers or professors. Through this, we are ignoring a bitter truth of the poor students of the Government Schools, who despite lack of all the big & small facilities, as compare of these Private schools’ performed equal to these toppers. KEYWORDS: Testing of knowledge, Education in Private Schools, Toppers and Calibre.

Economic structure, power and institutions: A conceptual framework for analysing the historical transformation of US industrial strategy

2021 ◽  
pp. 102452942110154
Author(s):  
Mattia Tassinari
Keyword(s):  
Structural Change ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Economic Structure ◽  
Institutional Arrangements ◽  
Illustrative Case ◽  
Alexander Hamilton ◽  
The Government ◽  
Distribution Of Power ◽  
Illustrative Case Study

An industrial strategy emerges from possibilities for structural change, that depend on material constraints and opportunities afforded by economic structure, the distribution of power in society and the institutional arrangements organized at the political level. Building on a structural political economy perspective, this article develops a structure–power–institutions conceptual framework to describe how economic structure, the distribution of power, and institutions interact through a ‘circular process,’ which is useful for analysing the historical transformation of industrial strategy. In this framework, an industrial strategy refers to the institutional arrangements through which the government manages emerging conflicts or agreements between different powers and influences structural change. As an illustrative case study, the structure–power–institutions framework is applied to analyse the historical transformation of US industrial strategy from the era of Alexander Hamilton to that of Donald Trump.

The Functions of Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS): An Assessment of Existing Policy and Practice in Odisha

2021 ◽  
pp. 245513332110251
Author(s):  
Jagatabandhu Mohapatra ◽  
Ranjit Kumar Dehury ◽  
Parthsaratathi Dehury ◽  
Ranjan Pattnaik
Keyword(s):  
Child Development ◽  
Vulnerable Groups ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Secondary Literature ◽  
Government Documents ◽  
Policies And Procedures ◽  
Lactating Mothers ◽  
Future Improvement ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Masses

The Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) scheme is the world’s biggest and unique programme for nutrition and childcare, launched way back on 2 October 1975 by the Government of India. It is a centrally subsidised scheme implemented by states across the country for the benefit of children, especially for vulnerable groups. The scheme’s main objective is to improve the health and nutritional condition of children below six years of age, along with pregnant women and lactating mothers. The objective of the study is to critically analyse functions of the ICDS Scheme in the state of Odisha about implementation and monitoring. The analysis was done with the help of secondary literature and available data from government documents. The opinion and experience of various stakeholders like Anganwadi workers, supervisors and other government staff have been analysed for this purpose. This article describes existing policies and procedures of food procurement, storing, supply, cooking, production and serving cycle under ICDS Scheme in Odisha. The recommendations of the study may help for future improvement of various thrust areas of the ICDS Scheme. The article brings out critical factors accountable for the efficient implementation of the ICDS programme. Further, the study evaluates the ICDS Scheme based on existing government guidelines to reach out to the masses in Odisha.

scholarly journals Water tourism conflict resolution through good governance (story from Indonesia)

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-52
Author(s):  
Zaini Rohmad ◽  
Agung Nur Probohudono ◽  
Waskito Widi Wardojo ◽  
Agung Wibowo
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Resolution ◽  
Water Resource ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Regional Government ◽  
Structural Factors ◽  
Water Conflict ◽  
Data Sampling ◽  
The Government

This paper discuss good governance model for conflict resolution around water tourism area in Indonesia. This paper developed structural factors that influence water tourism such as the population, economic development, regional generated revenue, real-time sector revenue, poverty rates, and water management which is the focus of the study affected the rising of the water conflict. This study is field research qualitative study. The objects in this research are water tourism stakeholders which are composed of three different water tourism management in Karanganyar, Central Java, Indonesia, namely Grojogan Sewu, Jumog and Peblengan. This study conducted in Karanganyar as a district that has a natural beauty with huge potential to further develop its natural attractions. The data sampling is done by observation and interview. From the result of this study it can be concluded that (1) there needs to be a clear explanation for the villagers near the water tourism area that the natural resources of water needs to be preserved and used moderately ; (2) a communication needs to be established between the stakeholders and those using the water resource, for the sake of the villagers’ welfare as well as the economic improvement; (3) the government, both the regional government as well as the central government need to make regulation to keep the condition of the nature without ignoring the possibility of conflict ensuing because of water usage by the villagers; (4) increasing the role of the villagers in managing the water resource so that there will be no prolonged conflict in the future.

scholarly journals The article Optimalisasi Peran Balai Pemasyarakatan dalam Pelaksanaan Pembinaan terhadap Anak Pelaku Tindak Pidana yang Dibebaskan Dimasa Pandemi Covid 19

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 468
Author(s):  
Yohana Damayanti Br Kaban ◽  
Beniharmoni Harefa
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Child Development ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Executive Order ◽  
Know How ◽  
The Government

Abstract During the Covid-19 pandemic, the government through the Ministry of Law and Human Rights reviewed the policy through Permenkumham No 10 in 2020 regarding the release of assimilation and the executive order making the child the perpetrator of this crime many were released. This makes bapas must improve the implementation of the development of the freed child. The problem in this study is how to optimize BAPAS in the implementation of child development as the perpetrator of crimes that are released because of Covid-19 and the obstacles faced by bapas in the implementation of the construction. The purpose of this study is to know how to optimize BAPAS in the development of children as perpetrators of crimes that are released because of Covid-19 and know the obstacles faced by bapas in the implementation of the construction of children as perpetrators of the crime struck. The research method used is normative juridical using secondary data obtained through literature studies such as scientific books, journals, laws. Key words : Correctional Center; Child; Covid-19 Abstrak Dimasa pandemi Covid-19, pemerintah melalui Kementerian Hukum dan HAM mengeluarkan kebijakan melalui Permenkumham No. 10 tahun 2020 terkait pembebasan dan asimilasi membuat anak sebagai pelaku tindak pidana ini banyak yang dibebaskan. Hal tersebut membuat pihak Balai Pemasyarakatan harus meningkatkan pelaksanaan pembinaan terhadap anak yang dibebaskan tersebut. Permasalahan dalam penelitian ini adalah bagaimana optimalisasi Balai Pemasyarakatan dalam pelaksanaan pembinaan anak sebagai pelaku tindak pidana yang dibebaskan karena Covid-19 dan kendala yang dihadapi pihak Balai Pemasyarakatan dalam pelaksanaan pembinaan tersebut. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah mengetahui bagaimana optimalisasi Balai Pemasyarakatan dalam pelaksaan pembinaan anak sebagai pelaku tindak pidana yang dibebaskan karena Covid-19 dan mengetahui kendala-kendala yang dihadapi pihak Balai Pemasyarakatan dalam pelaksanaan pembinaan terhadap anak sebagai pelaku tindak pidana yang dibebaskan tersebut. Metode penelitian yang digunakan adalah yuridis normatif dengan menggunakan data sekunder yang diperoleh melalui studi kepustakaan seperti buku-buku ilmiah, jurnal, undang-undang. Kata kunci: Balai Pemasyarakatan; Anak; Covid-19

scholarly journals Analysis and Improvement Strategies of the Phenomenon that What Biology Teachers Teach is not What They Learned in Rural Middle Schools

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richmond Sam Quarm ◽  
Richmond Sam-Quarm ◽  
Mohamed Osman Elamin Busharads ◽  
Juan Peng ◽  
Xuezhong Sun ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Middle School ◽  
Middle Schools ◽  
School Leaders ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
School Education ◽  
Middle School Education ◽  
Biology Teachers ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Rural Middle School ◽  
The Government

Rural education is a short board of China’s education. It is of great significance to strengthen the construction of the teacher team in rural middle schools for Rural Revitalization in the new era. The problem of structural shortage of teachers, reflected by the phenomenon of “what biology teachers teach is not what they learned” in rural middle schools, is a key issue that has been existing for a long time in the development of rural middle school education in our country. It is also a key problem that must be paid attention to and urgently solved in the face of the new situation, new tasks and new requirements. In response to this phenomenon that caused by the decline of students and the loss of biological teachers in rural middle schools, the government needs to play a supporting role and the school leaders of rural middle schools should innovate their systems and concepts. What’s more, biological teachers should reflect on their hearts and have the educational feelings of being willing to develop the countryside. Only when the government, middle school leaders and biology teachers have formed an educational synergy, can we better solve that harmful phenomenon and promote the healthy and rapid development of rural middle school education.

scholarly journals Messy Multiculturalism - A critical conversation about state multiculturalism and the lived everyday experiences of cultural diversity in Aotearoa New Zealand.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Sara Hansen
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
Ethnic Minorities ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Narrative Approach ◽  
Weak Version ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
The Government

<p>This thesis provides an ethnographic study of multiculturalism in Aotearoa New Zealand, which investigates the tensions between government-led stories about social harmony and tolerance and the stories told by members of multicultural communities. Examining multiculturalism from an ethnographic perspective means attempting to understand this concept through the fragmented, multiform, non-systematic, evocative and constantly changing reality of social life and everyday human interactions. Essentially, this means exploring the sometimes ‘messy’ experiences of multiculturalism.  The thesis is based on a narrative approach to ethnographic fieldwork, which involves the application of auto-ethnography, semi-structured interviews, participant observation, and document analysis as different avenues for story collection and analysis. I position myself as an academic listener, who makes sense of stories about multiculturalism by placing them alongside other types of stories and organising them through life-story and discourse analysis approaches. Through extensive Wellington-based fieldwork with grassroots organisations, everyday diversity experts, and multicultural activists, as well as discourse analysis of various forms of government publications and materials (i.e. conference speeches, booklets, reports, guidelines and photos), I gather evidence that reveals the complexities of multicultural identities when contrasted with government discourses of multiculturalism. I assemble and analyse two sets of stories – those told by government officials and representatives and those that emerge from the messy landscape of everyday life and grassroots multicultural movements. The key aim of this thesis is to stage a conversation between these different narrative terrains and shine a light on the disjunctive moments between government narratives about cultural diversity and the experiences, needs and aspirations of people who live multicultural lives and who engage in grassroots activism.  In analysing the evidence, this thesis reveals the complex ways in which people that live multicultural lives experience cultural belonging, and documents how they deploy strategic and creative techniques to navigate government-based forms of multiculturalism. My findings suggest that stories told from those who are a part of Aotearoa’s culturally diverse communities pose challenges to the official and government led image of New Zealand as a harmonious, tolerant and welcoming nation. By applying a narrative approach to the exploration of information distributed by the government, I demonstrate how this kind of information is discursively constructed and contributes to a larger storytelling project in which state information works to craft a particular image of the nation.  In the conversation that is staged throughout the thesis, it is argued that the government appears to support a weak version of multiculturalism, which only allows a tokenistic inclusion of ethnic minorities. The kind of multiculturalism which is aspired to from the ground – that is, by the everyday diversity experts and grassroots activists I interviewed during fieldwork – imagines a stronger version of multiculturalism. This version includes more radical forms of inclusion such as ethnic minorities being involved in decision making processes and being fairly represented in governing/public spaces, such as government agencies, local councils, school boards, law enforcement, legal institutions, and so on. Overall, this thesis contributes site specific and narrative-informed knowledge about the meaning of multiculturalism in New Zealand. It illustrates some of the factors that the government and policy makers need to be mindful of when they approach a multicultural population and matters of governance. It also exemplifies the kind of conversation topics and issues that are important and necessary to address in a multicultural settler society, when reflecting on how we understand and express the histories of cultural diversity and aspirations for a multicultural future.</p>

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