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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

A plate half full

The National Food Security Bill may not do much but what it does is essential

Fruitful deliberations

Two global meetings chart a course for weeding out biopiracy

States take the fizz out of cola

Budget 2008: missing the big picture

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Superbug prompts antibiotics policy

Standard treatment guidelines will determine drug prescription

Around 52 million people in west, central Africa will face severe food stress from June-August: IRC

More than 2,500 people to face catastrophic, famine-like conditions if no urgent action is taken, organisation warns

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

Climate impact on health: India’s heat-related deaths went up by 55%, finds Lancet data

Countries, companies continue to make choices threatening health of the people

Africa must be priority if humanity is to conquer hunger; but it is only getting worse there

By 2030, Africa will be home to the largest number of undernourished people

New polyhouse technology to help cultivate off-season crops

Genetic secrets of peanut varieties unveiled

Scientists found that its sequence was comparable in size to that of the human genome

Unsafe food is 'growing global threat', says WHO

Organisation estimates that unsafe food contributed to 351,000 deaths in 2010

Monsanto shuns GM

GM Food>> Monsanto • UK

Bitter way to slow ageing

Indian researchers find bitter cumin contains antioxidants

Malachite green: a carcinoge

Tightening up

To rein in beverages industry

In court