जलवायु परिवर्तन से किसानों के बीच बढ़ सकते हैं हिंसक घटनाएं: स्टडी

जलवायु परिवर्तन का केवल यह मतलब नहीं है कि आने वाले दिनों में परिस्थितियां कठोर हो जाएंगी, बल्कि इस वजह से लोगों के बीच ...

Every 9th person in the world went hungry last year: UN report

Around 700 million were exposed to severe food insecurity in 2018

Focus on climate change: Food majors to US government

Sustainable Food Policy Alliance pushes for carbon pricing system for industries 

Punjab's cold storage owners struggle to stay in business

As potato farmers abandon their produce in cold stores for over a year, storage owners are paying from their pockets to dispose old stock and …

Goa introduces tags to protect biodiversity zones

Organisations selling products, which are made using ingredients from these zones, will now have to pay 0.01 per cent of their annual profits to …

What did the last IPCC report say

Before IPCC releases the special report on global warming, take a look at how the panel has warned us before

Andhra farmers taste success with Zero Budget Natural Farming

Ensuring food security, producing more with less resources and building the resilience of smallholder farmers are important towards creating a …

Your food might be growing in contaminated soil

Soil pollution poses a major risk to human health by impairing plant metabolism and making crops unsafe for consumption

Organic farming will suffer a setback without certification, availability of breeder seeds

Although seed saving is a profitable enterprise, it’s the government’s responsibility to produce seeds and distribute them among …

Indian scientists convert wild legume into edible dal

A recent research shows it is possible to knock off genes that are responsible for the production of a class of anti-nutrients that make the …

At death's door

Around three million people are estimated to be severely food-insecure in north-eastern Nigeria, South Sudan and Somalia. The writer looks at the …

We must explore India’s forgotten recipes, switch to good food culture: experts

In an era of convenience food and TV dinner, it’s a challenge to rediscover our traditional foods

Not a promissory note

Demonetisation casts a long shadow over the rural economy

Recent violence may worsen food crisis in South Sudan

As per a recent assessment by the UN, over 4.8 million people are severely food insecure in the country

Punjab bans sale of junk food in schools

Private schools have been asked to declare that junk food is not sold in their premises. Manipur, Orissa, Chandigarh and Madhya Pradesh have …

Drones help farmers in the Philippines tackle climate disasters

About 25 FAO and government technical experts will be deployed across the archipelago to support the mission

Central African Republic in grip of food crisis

Cereal production and livestock reaing have been affected to a great extent

UN predicts fall in world’s food import bill to a five-year low

International food prices are likely to stay under downward pressure due to large supplies, low freight rates and a strong US dollar

Nearly 1 million people to face hunger by March in West Africa

Border closures, quarantines, hunting bans and other restrictions caused by Ebola outbreak are seriously hindering people's access to food

Faster and sharper

Peptide-based biosensor can detect food contamination by Salmonella in minutes

Sanitiser's germ-free gimmick

Dish soap, detergent, shampoo, toothpaste, deodorants, facial tissues and antiseptics—they all kill germs. Rolf Halden, professor at …

Put to test

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Yet another hypothesis to explain decline in vulture population

Another theory has implicated a commonly used veterinary medicine for the large-scale disappearance of vultures from the Indian sub-continent. …

Killing spree