Blog (Food)

Now that India can see its farms, what next?
Agriculture

Now that India can see its farms, what next?

Saurabh Bandyopadhyay
5 min read
India’s digital agricultural transformation should focus on building institutional and economic links between data and action
Spekboom.
Africa

Spekboom is nutritious, water‑wise and edible — so why aren’t more South Africans eating it?

Alba du Toit
4 min read
New research finds the hardy succulent cooks like leafy greens, packs vitamin C and could bolster South Africa’s fragile food system
Why the Shakta tradition of Bengal differs on food choices from the rest of India
Food

Why the Shakta tradition of Bengal differs on food choices from the rest of India

Rajat Ghai
5 min read
Shaktism venerates the Mother Goddess and is inextricably linked to Tantra; modern Bengali Hindu food habits reflect a complex mix of Shakta, Vaishnava and external influences
Who will grow India’s food in the future?

Who will grow India’s food in the future?

Puli Nageswara Rao
5 min read
More than weeds: Why herbicide-tolerant mustard doesn’t fit Indian farms

More than weeds: Why herbicide-tolerant mustard doesn’t fit Indian farms

Prasanna N S
6 min read
Russia is cutting off Ukraine’s grain exports again, threatening a critical harvest and global food security

Russia is cutting off Ukraine’s grain exports again, threatening a critical harvest and global food security

Iryna Skubii
3 min read
Mukuru Kwa Njenga slums in Nairobi.

Drought and the war in Ukraine changed what families in Kenya could afford to eat – research tracked food and cooking gas use

Matthew Shupler
4 min read
First step to fixing children’s nutrition is listening to them — Here’s how 140,000 young voices are shaping future of food in India

First step to fixing children’s nutrition is listening to them — Here’s how 140,000 young voices are shaping future of food in India

Monika Arora
4 min read
The grain the horses found

The grain the horses found

Susanta Sekhar Choudhury
4 min read
Climate shocks are hitting South Africa’s food businesses — study shows what they need to adapt

Climate shocks are hitting South Africa’s food businesses — study shows what they need to adapt

Adrino Mazenda
4 min read
‘What do you fall back on when income fails’: food insecurity, migration and COVID-19

‘What do you fall back on when income fails’: food insecurity, migration and COVID-19

Charumita Vasudev
4 min read
As India engineers nutrition, it needs to lean on the invisible supermarket that costs nothing

As India engineers nutrition, it needs to lean on the invisible supermarket that costs nothing

Anmol Sarah Abraham
5 min read
The world has the science to transform food systems. The next frontier is scaling it

The world has the science to transform food systems. The next frontier is scaling it

Timothy Krupnik
4 min read
Naga cuisine is not a provincial or tribal oddity but a sophisticated culinary tradition worthy of national and international attention

Naga cuisine is not a provincial or tribal oddity but a sophisticated culinary tradition worthy of national and international attention

Machilie Diswang
7 min read
Indigenous seeds showcased at Vidarbha Beej Samvardhan Samvad.

On International Biological Diversity Day, Vidarbha’s last seed keepers fight to save India’s vanishing crop heritage

Aniket Likhar
6 min read
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