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

In short

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

Zimbabwe pits currency against food price

South Asia

In deep water

Rivers Krishna and Mahanadi are in crisis. In the race to industrialise, states have drawn plans to exploit their last drop. For four decades, …

Unbalanced diets in G20 countries make 75% of global food carbon budget: Report

Food consumption patterns aligning with current national dietary guidelines can reduce total greenhouse gas emissions for G20 countries

Buriganga chokes on pollutants

Political will and community participation is needed to revive the dying river that gave life to Dhaka

Letters

COVID-19: Here's what decentralised planning teaches us to curb pandemics

Decentralised infrastructure and services provide a range of benefits for all stakeholders