Endurance test for microorganisms

A technology for preserving food relies on creating a hostile environment for bacteria and fungi in whose presence food goes bad

Food for thought

A happy picture painted by a recent FAO report gives way to grim realities about global food situation

In search of hunger

While the fare at the Rome Food Summit was aimed mainly to help tummy trimming of ambitious plans drawn up earlier, the general feeling of the …

Meagre gains

Cool creation

A cold storage system that does without power and skilled labour has been developed

Food insecurity

Environmental degradation would undermine China's food security in the coming 30 years

Don't adjourn

Parliament owes a good discussion on the bill

Seedy business

A secretive, influential industry

The popular adivasi food and drink

Rice is fermented to make Handia. A nagging worry is the unsustainable collection of of plant ingredients that go into the making of bakhar, the …

On a coconut trail

Beetles for breakfast !

George Brossard is a man on a crusad. To inform the world that the insects hold the key to a global food security

Fair distribution

Women's self-help groups run ration shops in Chhattisgarh

FSSAI's scientific panel reconstituted

But members of the panel now designated as “independent consultants” were a part of the panel as representatives of the industry till …

Global Hunger Index: Why is India trailing?

India ranked 94 in global hunger index 2020 among 107 countries 

Junk games and school children

Bill will push PDS reform

Development economist JEAN DREZE, known for his work on issues such as hunger, famine, social and human development in India, child health and …

Veggies delight

The rising demand for vegetables has opened up a money-making opportunity for small farmers. Already reeling from recurring droughts and …

In short

South Asia

US food authorities pander to drug companies

World leaders expected to endorse declaration on nutrition at Rome meet

The conference aims to address malnutrition in all its forms, especially in developing countries

UK food industry's faulty labelling scheme

Ban likely on junk food in schools

Food safety authority asks states to consider prohibition

FAO calls for sustainable aquaculture, end to illegal fishing

Declaration at the 34th session of FAO’s Committee on Fisheries emphasised on undoing damage caused by COVID-19 pandemic  

COVID-19: How a Delhi group is feeding the hungry mouths

The group of eight people in North Delhi’s Mukherjee Nagar started their community kitchen to feed over a hundred people every day