Urban-rural links to ensure food security, benefit rural producers
Weak link between smallholders and urban consumers is the main hurdle in improving food security in both rural and urban areas in developing …
Tough choices have to be made for Africa to sustainably urbanise
With Africa approaching 50 per cent urbanisation, governments have to make hard choices for scale and type of investments they need to make
Yemen needs aid to tide over worst hunger crisis
Twenty of the country’s 22 governorates are in “emergency” or “crisis” food-insecurity phases and almost two-thirds …
Africa development challenges are heavily under-researched
African leaders call for "critical interrogation" of the current challenges that the continent is facing
How agriculture can be intensified in Africa without causing harm
Sustainable agriculture in Africa has the ability to act as an example for other regions worldwide. But to do this the approaches and technology …
African Drought Conference: leaders focus on risk mitigation measures
African countries were urged to move away from crisis management approach to risk management
Plant microbiomes are not exactly a ‘treasure-trove’
Breeding plants with more beneficial bacteria to feed the world won’t be simple, study says
Several African countries in need of food assistance
Drought associated with El Nino has affected agriculture prospects in Southern Africa
Need food system overhaul to combat global hunger: Report
Promoting consumption model and regenerative production practices, supporting development of diverse distribution market networks is need of the hour
Climate change: Food production in Africa’s Sudano-Sahelian Zone under threat, finds study
The Sudano-Sahelian Zone in Africa is the most vulnerable to climate change
Hunger costs Ghana $2.6 billion per year
24 per cent of all child mortality cases in Ghana are associated with undernutrition
IPR claims by big companies; farmers' food security under threat
Patents on seeds by corporations leave farmers unable to save or share seeds
A thought for food
Experience shows that agriculture benefits far more from overall macro-economic reforms
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Roots of paucity
US policy limits agricultural yield of poor nations
Review of the website www.freerice.com
Regional cooperation can improve food security
Unable to get food, Adivasi tea worker in north Bengal estate dies of starvation
Fact-finding team formed by independent labour organisations reveals the worker and his wife had no access to food under the public …
What Gandhi teaches the millennials on food and fitness
The cornerstone of Mahatma Gandhi’s attitude towards food was simplicity; food for him was energy and medicine
Jharkhand’s community kitchens: Making a mockery of food security?
The state's Dal Bhat Yojana was meant to provide some food security to those struggling to make ends meet by providing them hygienic and …
Byanjana Dwadashi: How a 500-year-old festival in Odisha symbolises community, food security and balanced diet
Byanjana Dwadashi is a Vaishnavite festival that commemorates an episode featuring Krishna in the Mahabharata
Death of the Nile? Mega dams have killed the river’s ability to flush carcinogens, slowly killing its delta
Much of the contamination by heavy metals is irreversible, but science-based conservation measures could help, study claims
COVID-19’s important lesson: Living with little
Learning to live with little is not living in poverty, but to cook and eat what is required, reducing gluttony and wasting little
Extreme hunger in South Sudan pushes locals to gather food for survival
Households are now surviving by gathering food, as they are unable to grow their own or earn money to buy any
Agricultural transformation vital to produce 50% more food in 2050
In sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, agricultural output would need to more than double by the middle of the century