Pramila Behera, 27, of Pengdusi village
in Thuamul Rampur block of Odisha’s Kalahandi district has started her
nutrition garden over two decimal of land beside her house. The small garden offers
her the freedom to decide what kind of food items she is going to offer to her
husband, daughters and son.
Though the idea of nutrition garden is
quite like a traditional kitchen garden. But, the difference here is that
Pramila grows a wide range of vegetables, legumes and leaves in her nutrition
garden so that it can give her control over food and fulfil the micronutrient
needs of her family.
Stories by Basudev Mahapatra, a journalist from the eastern India, on Environment, Polity and Sustainability.
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December 28, 2016
Malkangiri child deaths: disease or malnourishment?
The large number of children dying in
Malkangiri district of Odisha has been officially attributed to Japanese
Encephalitis and malaria but villagers and civil society organisations
say that malnourishment has contributed to these avoidable deaths
“Following vomiting and symptoms that made my 3-year-old daughter,
Julie, feel uneasy, we took her to the district headquarter hospital in
Malkangiri. We never knew that it was her final departure from the
village. She succumbed to a new disease that the doctors said was
Japanese fever (Japanese Encephalitis),” says Chumudi Madkami of
Palkonda village while holding her visibly weak one-year-old son Aditya.
September 21, 2016
August 29, 2016
Did Dana Majhi's wife die of hunger, malnourishment?
Questions that linger about death of Dana Majhi's wife are whether this is
another case of death due to malnutrition and hunger? Did the hospital
authorities knowingly admitted her in the TB ward to show it as a death due to
TB and to hide the real reasons that would expose bigger failures of the Odisha
government
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