Cocooned in secrecy

Aye, says India to GM food

Draft rules for GM food are nothing short of treachery by the Union government

In absence of domestic markets, organics of the poor head North

Tainted milk

The arsenic affinity

Parliament panel says no to FDI in retail

Poor count

Defining poverty is crucial to make the food security bill effective

Fertiliser industry to make $57 billion in profits this year as farmers, govts grapple with the bill

Analysis finds 189 per cent increase in costs for the key imported fertilisers in 2021

Food Systems Summit: How government is robbing billions of dollars from farmers

India’s policies block farmers’ earning in order to keep food cost low for consumers, according to the latest UN report  

Why climate change studies on rice production are important in Wayanad

Area under rice cultivation has been declining rapidly in north Kerala district between 2004-05 and 2018-19 

African ministers call for accelerating actions towards achieving food security

They advocated mainstreaming cross-cutting issues such as gender, nutrition and climate change post-COVID-19

COVID-19: ‘Inadequate food for children, pregnant women at Delhi Anganwadi centres’

Half-kg panjiri, 250-gm groundnuts being supplied to beneficiaries instead of nutrition kits, claimed Anganwadi workers in letter to Delhi …

Are eco-friendly products really any good?

Eco-friendly products come with thick wrapping and an expensive price tag not everyone can afford.

Traditional seeds need to be conserved for organic farming

At the 19th Organic World Congress, more than 55 groups have come together to call for the conservation of indigenous seeds and shunning GM crops

CSE welcomes FSSAI’s ban on potassium bromate

The FSSAI has convened a meeting of its scientific committee on June 28 to discuss the use of potassium iodate in food

UN urges stronger response to address El Niño impacts

More than US $2.4 billion are needed for current El Niño responses and currently there is a $1.5 billion gap in funding

Uttarakhand to introduce its own food security scheme

Move follows Centre's refusal to allocate additional foodgrains to the state to implement food security Act

Deadly mettle

Air, water and soil: all have varying amounts of toxic heavy metals. Gradually, they are entering the human body through the food chain. Down …

All You Need to Know about Your Bread

A new study by Delhi-based non-profit Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) has shown that 84 per cent of bread and bakery samples collected …

COVID-19: Bracing for agrarian crisis and food insecurity

Distress among marginal farmers and unavailability of food to migrant labourers has been largely ignored in Union government’s economic …

Public Deprived System

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

Persistent in folly

Rice and wheat fetch a secure price and subsidies on farm inputs. Coarse grains have no place in the public distribution system, although their …

Rice: the real cost

It is said the future wars would be fought over the issue of water, not land. Yet Indian government promotes rice, which consumes water, over …

Cereal killer

By promotong rice over coarse grains, the government is promoting food scarcity and defeciency of micronutrients among India's most malnourished …

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