Vanishing breeds

While debating the ways to attain global food security, national governments ignore the most pertinent issue: rapidly disappearing agro-biodiversity

Checking a menace

A virus is being used to destroypests that damage the chickpea crop

Food for thought

Acrylamide for snacks

Starch-rich foodstuff can become carcinogenic when exposed to high temperatures

Food price inflation rate in rural India has doubled in a year

Food price rise has been fuelling overall inflation in India in recent months  

Food security policy formulation: What can India learn from other countries?

Food shortage, inflation, irrational polices: What not to do to avoid economic disasters 

Using wastewater to grow crops can address water scarcity in agriculture

Water is vital for food production and climate change threatens this most precious resource

Farmers give silver lining to famine clouds

A country where millions have died of starvation can now hope to achieve self-sufficiency in food, with the UN predicting record harvests of …

Ground realities

Foodgrain production will have to increase by 5 million tonnes every year to meet rising demand

How did COVID-19 pandemic pan out for India’s farmers? Check out these 8 charts

43% respondents were ‘worried about the food’, 21% ate ‘less than usual’, 14% skipped meals completely, while 5% went &…

Why did the Maya civilisation collapse? We don’t know yet, but drought was likely not the cause: Study

The Maya people could have turned to chaya and cassava to meet their carbohydrates and protein needs

Deserted Delicacies

Abundant, nutritious and tasty. Yet, traditional desert food is gradually losing out to commercially grown crops

"Upstart" tomatoes for stiff upper-lips

Growing on less water

Call to action: Pest control actors should join hands to curtail harmful impact of rodents on India’s food production

Ecologically based rodent management has great opportunity to be adopted in the states of Madhya Pradesh & Jharkhand

World’s 1 billion people are hungry and 2 billion eat too much wrong food

A study conducted in 16 countries says world’s eating habits will not leave enough food to feed all and it is detrimental to the climate too

Indian scientists convert wild legume into edible dal

A recent research shows it is possible to knock off genes that are responsible for the production of a class of anti-nutrients that make the …

Fungal menace

The adverse effects of fungal toxins

Rent-a-farm: Watch how this firm is helping city dwellers grow food

Delhi-based start-up, Edible Routes, is helping people bring closer to their food and instilling a greater sense of well-being

Sudden rains damage Bihar’s rabi crops

Farmers expected a decline in the production of fruits — including mangoes and litchis

Crash in maize production may hit over a million people in Zimbabwe

The entire sub-Saharan African region will be hit hard as maize is the most important cereal crop in here

GM in food: Food regulator mum on illegalities

FSSAI says it will frame a law to regulate GM food, but fails to talk about the prevalent illegal trade and mislabeling

How to make Africa food self-sufficient, again?

Africa is the only continent that imports more food than it produces. With ground reports from 10 African countries, Down To Earth's editorial …

Alien pest invades farmlands in Africa, destroys crops in more than 10 countries

Unlike the native pest, the fall armyworm from the Americas is harder to detect and eradicate

Rabi sowing update: Wheat gains momentum, pulses continue to lag 

Increase in area under pulses important for bringing down food inflation; Rabi paddy acreage reduced over the years