Takeover threat

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African swine fever: Forgotten contagion

Viruses, it seems, are at war with life forms. While the world is struggling with the novel coronavirus, another one has been killing pigs, …

Agriculture hit hard by fighting in Gaza

Uncertainty looms as local production falls and food prices rise

Left demands right to food for every Indian

Begins five-day sit in protest at Jantar Mantar

A pre-emptive strike against Monsanto

American organic farmers are trying to ensure the biotech giant cannot sue them

Kerala gets cautious

Plans to ban extremely and moderately hazardous pesticides in cardamom district, Idukki

The dumber number game

Bad feed

New lands of the free

New lands of the fat?

Land of the Free

World Zoonoses Day: Changing our relationship with animals to avoid another pandemic

Growing severity of COVID-19 is compelling us to re-think ways to reduce transmission risk of emerging diseases from animals to humans

Dangers ahead at WTO

The trade facilitation agreement paves the way for fresh pressures on developing countries such as tariff cuts on industrial products

India cannot afford organic farming

S K SINHA national professor at the Water Technology Centre, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, spoke to Manish Tiwari on food …

Keep on the grass

Alpine pastures are thriving despite policies to encourage grazing. But Himalayan pastures languish despite strong conservationist policies

Is the joyride over ?

There was fear in the 1960s. Would India continue to wait for food imports to feed itself? The scientific community came up with an answer that …

Is chemical the culprit?

Scientists in Bihar find a plausible link between pesticides and breast cancer

What it takes to deliver midday meal

Fatal disconnect

India struggles to keep its children healthy, say experts

Lack of credible data and co-ordinated action slow country’s efforts to contain malnutrition

Hidden hunger?

There is a rush to cash in on micronutrient deficiency in India through fortification of food

India's nutritional puzzle

From the maw of the Indian state there has emerged an undigested piece of development cake: nutritionally speaking, people's diets are out of …

WTO 9th ministerial: victory or compromise deal for India?

Civil society groups say India wilted under pressure from the US and agreed to accept conditions that were not part of G-33 proposal

Survey highlights severe nutrition deficiencies in West Bengal tea workers

Study carried out following death of a tea worker due to starvation

Over 2.8 billion people may be pushed into living in areas with severe ecological threats by 2050

More than half of hotspot countries facing a severe threat are in sub-Saharan Africa

WWF: 32 million acres of grasslands across US & Canadian Great Plains ploughed up since 2012

Destruction of grasslands across Great Plains continues at an unsustainable pace