FLUOROSIS PROBLEM

Locust swarms to converge on Red Sea

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Locust outbreak in Afghanistan

Israel chokes off chlorine supply to Gaza

China taxes food grain export

UN Food Aid Programme to withdraw aid from Angola

Rise in biofuel demand could trigger food, water crisis

China suspends farmland-to-forest plan

South Asia

Zimbabwe invites UN to conduct food-security survey

Zimbabwe pits currency against food price

South Asia

Letters

Doomsday vault good and ready

Letters

Delhi rain, waterlogging puts the spotlight on urban flooding

Urban flooding has become increasingly frequent in India’s major cities

News Briefs

In short

South Asia

South Asia

Drought of equity

A large part of Maharashtra has been declared drought-hit. But distribution of water is quite incongruous. While the few who are politically and …

Call for moratorium on biofuel

COVID-19: Around 45 mln pushed into global food insecurity, says FAO report

Around 33 million reside in South and South east Asia, remainder in sub-Saharan Africa

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