South Asia

One in every nine persons in the world goes hungry: UN State of Food Insecurity Report

Asia houses 526 million of the 805 million chronically undernourished people in the world

Supreme Court reminder to FSSAI on monitoring pesticides in food commodities

Non-profit Centre for Science and Environment says food regulatory body should also periodically test packaged and processed food, including soft …

Ganguly panel confirms pesticide in soft drinks

Indian media on riots in Uganda

Centre takes steps to monitor pulse stocks: Is India staring at another food crisis?

Heavy rain and hailstorm in mid-March and early April might affect yield of pulse crops; official says government focusing on nutrition and security

Dying for ration: Biometric glitches in Rajasthan villages keep the poor hungry

Valid ration card holders turned away from PDS shops as fingerprints don't match in records

CAG blames Centre for increase in foodgrain procurement cost

Lack of specific method in determining minimum support price of grains caused variation in margins over production, says report

Grain of truth

India's public distribution system promotes rice and wheat. These water-intensive crops require more inputs and are less nutritious as compared …

Taste of Burma in New York

Hoihnu Hauzel recalls her love for Burma and its food

Suffering continues

Contaminated food

Earth links

Toxin trial-blazer

Cost-effective and easy way to test aflatoxin contamination evolved

Clean diet

Food for taught

Should Karnataka expand the midday meal scheme without fine-tuning it?

No Entry

Nidhi Jamwal and Kushal P S Yadav, prosecuted as 'trespassers'

Edibility questioned

Centre cuts foodgrain supply for Sampoorna Grameen Rozgar Yojana

India needs to overhaul its approach towards agriculture

Drought unleashes starvation

Officials admit to 10 deaths in Jharkhand's backward district, actual number might be 20

Demand unsupplied

Farmers are bearing the brunt of big food companies’ decarbonisation efforts – here’s why

Proposed decarbonisation measures buy large companies are often impractical for smaller farms, expensive or lack buy-in from farmers

What’s driving food prices in new normal climate?

Monsoon as a unitary weather phenomenon is no more a valid indicator for food prices as its progress and distribution have changed completely

Centre may reduce moisture content limit for wheat, paddy. Why this will hurt farmers

The government is trying to gradually withdraw from procurement operations, MSP regime with this move, feel farmers