Are Zimbabwe's economic problems exaggerated?

Drought in Ukraine affects grain exports

Eat Cameroonian: government

Indian diets are unhealthy: EAT-Lancet report

The report compared food consumption patterns in India with a reference diet from the EAT-Lancet Commission

Bhutan’s experiments with happiness

The idyllic Buddhist kingdom believes that peace and happiness should take preference over material growth. In a world beset by inequities and …

Seeking Food Sovereignty

Biofuel good idea, bad practice

South Asia

Riots over food security in Burkina Faso

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Arsenic attack on Chittagong

People in the port city depend on arsenic-contaminated groundwater in absence of safe water supply

Ensure piped water supply to residents near Union Carbide plant: monitoring committee to Bhopal municipality

Non-profits present high court committee with documents on extent of water and soil contamination

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

Global food crisis: causes and implications for India

Is there a global crisis unravelling? World food reserves are at their lowest in 25 years and the prices of most food crops are at a record high. …

UN Food Aid Programme to withdraw aid from Angola

Rise in biofuel demand could trigger food, water crisis

China suspends farmland-to-forest plan

Contaminating millets

There is disquiet over government scheme to wean traditional millet farmers on chemical inputs

South Asia

Zimbabwe invites UN to conduct food-security survey