World Food Day: Plant-based diet can fix food inequality, cut premature deaths says report

Plant-based diets can cut down carbon emissions by 30%; wildlife loss by 46%

COVID-19: The world scrambles for food

The Indian government announced a Rs 1.7-lakh crore package for the poor and needy

Stale food from Rome

Experts focus on measures to keep plant pests, diseases at bay

According to FAO, there is a need to increase efforts for protecting food security

FAO report blames developing nations for deforestation

Half of the world’s hungry people live in Asia-Pacific; Southern Asia worst affected: FAO

Higher food, feed, and fuel prices, combined with a slow recovery from COVID-19 pandemic to blame; women fared worse in food insecurity

El Nino impact on food security: $160 million needed urgently to support 4.8 million people at risk, says FAO

Releases anticipatory action plan after WMO forecasts El Nino to stay till April 2024

Decade-old FAO guidelines still the way ahead for food security, says report

No consensus at forums like WTO dangerous for international food security, it adds

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Africa fights hunger with football, Vietnam aims at ‘zero hunger’ by 2025

Millions of people in Asia and Africa are undernourished and malnourished

Starved of substance

No headway made at World Food Summit in accelerating efforts to eliminate hunger

Can organic farming ensure food security?

India less committed to reducing hunger than Nepal or Bangladesh: HANCI report

India ranked 19th among 45 developing countries assessed by UK-based organisation

FAO, Swiss Institute team up to fight bird flu and other infectious diseases

Both organisations are developing tools to improve early detection of such pandemics

Global forest product industries recover from recession

India emerges one of the top five forest products consuming countries

International meet on Avian flu agree on a roadmap

Food prices spur inflation

El Nino fallout: food prices to shoot northward

The weather phenomenon will bring down production, increase food prices worldwide

Spreading message

Surging bird flu cases may increase human infection risk, warn UN agencies & WOAH

Urge countries to strengthen disease surveillance and improve hygiene at poultry farms

Alternatives to endosulfan

FAO to give suggestions on the pesticide to committee on persistent organic pollutants

Prices rise, not hunger

People prefer to eat less nutritious food than go hungry, says FAO

Enter the Bank

Bhutan becomes first country to sterilise all stray dogs after 14-year-long project

New report by WHO, FAO & WOAH recommends oral rabies vaccination