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

Over 50 million people may be food insecure in eastern Africa, warns WFP

Sudan (17.7 million), Ethiopia (15.8 million people) and South Sudan (5.7 million) most concerning  

Recent Fall Armyworm invasion could be global, warn scientists

Such an occurrence could put world food security at risk

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Poor communities in Bangladesh trade in paddy through the creation of grain banks

New global agriculture census round to kick off in 2016

Agriculture censuses help to boost rural development and improve food security

How the Bill took shape

People oppose the rush for cash

Say linking cash transfers with Aadhaar will cause problems

INDIA

Work for food

Employment guarantee means entitlement to rural livelihood and food security

Marooned!

Island states feel isolated

Wheat and chaff

Grain import policy quixotic, lacks logic

According to report

India outsources agriculture

Nutrition challenge

88,000 fake ration cards

Orissa government to save Rs 40 crore by cancelling them

MS Swaminathan, a legend who will live on

Swaminathan will go down in history as the person who pulled India out of the ‘hunger trap’. This was the biggest achievement of the …

Humble millets can ensure food security, nutrition to India’s vulnerable communities

Shifting from climate-resilient and micro-nutrient-rich traditional crops to cash crops has resulted in poor health indicators, says expert

Climate resilience: Kenyan farmers are adapting to extreme weather by growing indigenous crops

Exotic and commercial vegetables still form the bulk of Kenyan diets; campaigners for indigenous foods hope to reverse the trend

Sustainable agriculture: Choosing compost with precision can ensure food security

Precision composts will be created by identifying the configurations that produce either unsatisfactory or good results

Over 90 million excluded from PDS entitlement: Report

Many states still skip including vulnerable groups as automatic beneficiaries  

FAO acknowledges Indian wheat exports helped in reducing April inflation

There has been some relief in inflation in April according to the Food Price Index of the FAO, released May 6; this relief has been seen in …

International Day of Rural Women: It’s time we recognise their lives and livelihood

Rural women are active agents of socio-economic change. As we celebrate the day on October 15, there is a need to pull them out of the …

Food safety: Dangerously high levels of salt and fat in Indian junk food

CSE tested 33 foods which included 14 packaged foods such as chips, namkeen, noodles, and soup; and 19 fast foods such as burgers, fries, fried …

Point of No Agri-returns Part 7: India diverts 10 million hectares of productive agri-lands, replaces them with barren lands for cultivation

Government report terms this as the 'often overlooked' aspect of the agrarian crisis in the country

Famine creeps in on Africa while the world’s media looks elsewhere

The western media's focus on events at home like the US elections and the UK Brexit referendum has come at the expense of reporting on the famine …