Drought in Ukraine affects grain exports

Eat Cameroonian: government

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 …

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

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Arsenic attack on Chittagong

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

South Asia

Riots over food security in Burkina Faso

Biofuel good idea, bad practice

Seeking Food Sovereignty

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

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

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, …

Buriganga chokes on pollutants

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

South Asia