Spoilt for choice

Are cheap food prices reason to cheer?

Low Pulse

Spiralling prices of pulses have shown India’s dependence on imports. Pulses are integral to India’s diet but not its food policy. As …

Supermarket giants Tesco, Asda threatened

Food aid comes a cropper

The desperation of farmers

Sugarcane growers in Uttar Pradesh short changed

Food prices spur inflation

African countries must double investment in agricultural R&D, finds study

The report analyses trends in investments and human resource capacity in African agriculture system

India compromises on WTO deal

Under pressure from the US, it accepts conditions not part of G-33 proposal

Sri Lanka regulates GM food import

Grains of doubt

Rural affairs ministry rejects wage payment in kind under rural job scheme

A question of labelling

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Public Deprived System

The country’s 76 million poor have been denied the right to claim subsidised foodgrain under public distribution system

Parliament committee proposes no increase in foodgrain entitlement in Food Security Bill

States given the responsibility of expanding food security net to cover more households

Bolsanaro’s environmental crimes come under EU scanner

Europe’s resolve to act against the Bolsonaro government’s environmental crimes appears to be strengthening

Fat of the matter

What does 'healthy oil' really mean? It is difficult to tell. The Centre for Science and Environment studied branded edible oils to understand …

Model in a fix

Chhattisgarh's much appreciated public distribution scheme is falling apart due to corruption and mismanagement

Centre eases quarantine norms for wheat imports

Changing diets

Indian farmers get short shrift as country imports wheat

Indian farmers get short shrift as country imports wheat

PDS protests in West Bengal

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The Monsanto way

How the US multinational won state governments and influenced policy