Fresh comes calling

A few e-shops are changing the way wet markets operate by offering fresh, chemical-free fish, poultry and meat at the doorstep. Will they be able …

Agricultural Adaptation to Climate Change in Africa: Food Security in a Changing Environment

A changing climate is likely to have a drastic impact on crop yields in Africa.

Four more countries join global coalition to protect pollinators

This takes the number of signatories for the ‘Coalition of the Willing on Pollinators’ to 16

Matter of taste

Our vegetables have become blemish-free, resistant to pest and long-lasting, but they have lost their flavour in the process

Harming the organic farming movement

The draft regulations will dissuade small farmers from practising organic farming

Africa’s untapped goldmine of food biodiversity

The sustainability of agrobiodiversity is vital in meeting the food and nutrition needs of present and the future generations in Africa

Flowering blossoms

You can interpret banana flowers in many ways—religious, medicinal and culinary

How To Have Your Own Kitchen Garden: Explained in 10 Minutes

Fazal and Kapil from Edible Routes tell you the exact steps on how to have your own kitchen rooftop garden. Growing your own food is the best way …

Participatory Guarantee System brings credibility to small 'Organic' farmers

Participatory Guarantee System (PGS) is a new initiative for 'Organic' product certification in India. It helps small scale and marginal farmers, …

US consumers buying more from mass marketers than grocery stores: study

This could pose a potential health concern to the country, it warns

International pact to tackle illegal fishing gathers momentum

Agreement promotes collaboration among fishermen, port authorities and coast guards to strengthen inspection at ports and on fishing vessels

A nine-year-old’s revolt

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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 …