News 360° - Briefs

Nine new items added to MSP for minor forest produce scheme

Despite additions, quality parameters unavailable to state agencies

26% of local livestock breeds face the risk of extinction

African wild ass and the wild Bactrian camel most endangered

Why potato's cousins remain neglected

Tubers come in all shapes, sizes and colours, and pack quite a punch

Southeast Asia’s double whammy—child malnutrition and obesity

WHO/UNICEF report does a reality check on region’s 'double burden'

El Niño to disrupt rainfall, reduce crop harvests in Africa, East Asia: scientists

Extensive loss of beans, potatoes and maize are expected in parts of Kenya

El Nino likely to cause loss of Rs 1,80,000 crore this year: ASSOCHAM

Studies indicate high food inflation

Poison on the plate

Study links toxins in food products to cancer and other diseases in children

Kerala court allows law violation

Permits use of paddy field unfit for cultivation for other purposes

The ties that bind

Freshwater: a scarce resource

KENYA

Hungry to give

US makes good business from food aid

South Asia

On tenterhooks in Geneva

Maharashtra revokes ban on popular lentil

20 hectares of millet

One person's weed, another's medicinal plant

Foodwise

Farmers in Maharashtra revive 120 varieties of local crops

Reading between poverty lines

Is the latest poverty estimate a true indicator of rural poor in India?  

European food regulatory body rejects French ban on GM maize

Scientific evidence found lacking in indicating risk to health, environment

How true is Horlicks ad hype on boiled milk?

Experts say advertisement is misleading

Poor regulators do not a rich country make

Locust swarms to converge on Red Sea

Call for ban on food colours