Fast-developing nations still home to half of world’s hungry and malnourished people: report

Study also stresses on positive impact of sanitation on nutrition status of children

Assam on a platter

Spoilt for choice

Are cheap food prices reason to cheer?

What the biofuel goldrush means for food security

Villagers take on polluting plant

Uranium in food, water in Bathinda

Experts give them a miss

Pesticides linked to neuro-disorder

Chemicals in food may trigger attention deficit hyperactivity   

Locust attack: 40 of MP’s 55 districts hit

Temporary control camps, continuous spray of insecticides are among measures taken to control locust attack

Save and Grow: a guide to sustainable cereal production

The technique focuses on conservation agriculture, maintaining soil health, selecting crops with higher yield potential and greater resistance to …

'Failing to support GM crops single most damaging element for growth'

The European Association for Bio-Industries (EuropaBio) says the decision by 16 EU nations to opt out of GMO crop cultivation has taken away the …

Cabinet committee decides to reduce food buffer stocks

Go ahead for Department of Food and Public Distribution to offload excess stocks in the open market or export

Iraq needs US $38.5 million aid to avert collapse of agriculture sector: FAO

Many of Iraq's water resources, including two great rivers—Tigris and Euphrates—flows through areas that are under IS militants’…

Eat bugs, fight hunger and malnutrition

Beetles, caterpillars, wasps can supplement diets, give nutrition and create employment, says FAO

Suspect claims in Teva’s suit against Cipla

The US Federal Trade Commission has warned the Israeli drug firm its patents are wrongful as it sues Cipla aggressively

Flame that cools

Long-forgotten palash flower helps beat the heat, offers health benefits

Roots of paucity

US policy limits agricultural yield of poor nations

Farmers see red, again

INDONESIA

In Himachal Pradesh, Hindus and Buddhists organise religious ceremonies for rain & snow

With the 3-month-long dry spell continuing in the state, people say they have been left with few alternatives

Maharashtra unseasonal rains likely to damage onions, wheat, grapes

Along with a drop in price, the conditions will bolster pest attacks, farmers say

Global food crisis: 1 new child suffers severe malnutrition every 60 seconds, says UNICEF

Almost 8 million children, mainly in Africa, at risk of deaths from severe wasting

Excess rainfall in Nov-Dec, early heat: Why lime production was hit in Andhra, India's largest producer

Gujarat, Maharashtra also affected, prices to come down in a fortnight, say experts

Discouraging breastfeeding: 50% pregnant women, parents targeted by misleading baby food marketing

Sales of formula milk more than doubled in last 2 decades

CoP26 report card: Agriculture continues to remain subterranean even in Glasgow

Resource-intensive food systems subsidised by rich countries live another day