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Children have the right to eat eggs, onions and garlic

The midday meal scheme for schoolchildren is increasingly getting politicised, as the upper class elite wants to impose its own religious/food beliefs on malnourished children

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World Food Safety Day: India must regulate foods with excess fat, sugar and salt

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World Food Day: Achieving zero hunger by 2030 difficult, not impossible

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Consumers cannot make informed decision without GM labelling

21 of the 65 processed foods tested had genetically modified ingredients; most of these products do not mention anything about GM on their labels.

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Glyphosate use increased 1500% since genetically modified crops were introduced

Cultivation of genetically modified herbicide tolerant crops relies heavily on glyphosate, a possible carcinogen

CSE tested 64 processed food products bought from retail stores in Delhi-NCR, Punjab and Gujarat and one sample of crude cottonseed oil. These products were tested for the presence of genetically modified (GM) ingredients using the advanced technology qPCR (quantitative polymerase chain reaction). Results showed that 32 per cent of the products tested contained GM ingredients

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Genetically modified food: Whose health, whose business

People are concerned about the possibility of eating GM food. Can we not expect the government to ensure that they have the right to choose?

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Vacuum in governance on genetically modified foods in India

FSSAI has so far dragged its feet on regulating GM foods. Its recent attempt to regulate the industry may do more harm than good as the draft regulations are too expensive and cumbersome to be implemented

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Can India achieve its goal to be a zero trans fats nation by 2022?

Not if the food industry has its way. They do not see a link between trans fats and ill health

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Why food is about biodiversity

If biodiversity disappears, food will become impersonal. It will become a sterile package designed for universal size and taste

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Another problem with China's coal: Mercury in rice

A study finds that coal pollution in China is leading to people getting significant levels of mercury poisoning from rice

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Biotechnology for food security: more hope than hype

A range of biotechnological approaches, including both traditional ones like selective breeding and fermentation techniques, and modern ones such as genomics, molecular breeding and genetic engineering, can contribute towards achieving food and nutrition security

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Blind solutions

Government's plan to fortify food cannot be a holistic solution to malnutrition

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Migration and Food Security: challenges and opportunities for India

Migration towards urban centres is a critical trend that will shape food security and nutrition in the near future

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An urban garden which produces 17kg of fruits and vegetables per day

Not just vegetables, this permaculture urban garden has fruit trees as well

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Growing your own food is the new gold

I wanted to grow healthy food for my family, but got much more in my journey

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Can a barren land be turned into a food forest?

Till two years ago, a plot of 38 hectares in Telangana was barren, but soon it will be a venue for an international convention on permaculture

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Matter of taste

Our vegetables have become blemish-free, resistant to pest and long-lasting, but they have lost their flavour in the process

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Food and nutrition securities are often overlooked

There are systematic correlations between household income, education level, local governance and food security

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Food and dissent

Sunita Narain's response to the comments on her previous editorial "Why I would not advocate vegetarianism"

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Why I would not advocate vegetarianism

Meat eating is not the key issue, it is the amount that is consumed and the manner in which it is produced. This is where India differs.

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A herb from Garhwal

Locals may not pay much attention to Bhilmoda because of its abundance, but the herb has many traditional medicinal properties

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Reducing food waste vital for India's food security

It is estimated that saving one-fourth of the food currently lost or wasted globally would be enough to feed 870 million hungry people in the world

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Africa’s untapped goldmine of food biodiversity

The sustainability of agrobiodiversity is vital in meeting the food and nutrition needs of present and the future generations in Africa