What are the Initiatives Related to Food Security and Gender Equality? Global: ✓International Women’s Day (8th march) ✓UN Women ✓UN Decade of Action on Nutrition (2016-2025) ✓Sustainable Development Goal (2) of ‘Zero Hunger’. ✓World Food Programme (WFP) ✓Global Hunger Index Indian: ✓POSHAN Abhiyaan ✓Antoydaya Anna Yojana (AAY) ✓Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS) ✓Mid-day Meal (MDM)

Kerala to have its own regional red list of birds- ✓Kerala will soon have its own red list of birds. ✓Once it gets ready, Kerala will be the first State to have a region-specific red list of birds. ● About the  Regional Bird Red list: ✓The Kerala Bird Monitoring Collective led by Kerala Agricultural University

India’s Initiatives: ( REDUCTION OF TOBACCO CONSUMPTION) ✓Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products Act (COTPA), 2003: It replaced the Cigarettes Act of 1975 (largely limited to statutory warnings- ‘Cigarette Smoking is Injurious to Health’ to be displayed on cigarette packs and advertisements. It did not include non-cigarettes). The 2003 Act also included cigars, bidis, cheroots, pipe