WHO OWNS OUR VEGGIES?
The patenting of a broccoli developed through conventional breeding in Europe is a disturbing trend since it violates the law on plant life
Wheat blast: A fungus that spread to three continents can threaten food security globally
Magnaporthe oryzae fungus was first reported in South America, from where it independently spread to Asia and Africa
Amrit kaal for adivasis? Union Budget 2023-24 weakens safety nets for tribals
Schemes for food security, child welfare, employment guarantee for tribals saw shrinking of funds
Over 90 Tamil Nadu panchayats pass resolution against GM mustard
Letter urged the state government to write to the Union minister for environment, asking him to intervene and stop the planting of GM mustard in …
Depleting food grain stock ring alarms: Is India staring at a rice crisis?
Over 44 million tonnes of grains in stock compared to 78.6 million tonnes last year; Wheat dangerously close to buffer limit
Not just groundwater, flouride has poisoned agricultural soil, crops in Bengal
Farmers in Bankura and Purulia rely on groundwater, heavily contaminated with flouride, to cultivate crops
New antimicrobial toolkit by WHO, OIE, FAO aims to fill data gaps
Their report called for implementation of standards on antimicrobial use in a comprehensive manner across all five stages of the antimicrobial …
Spare me my noodles
As the India-China standoff becomes more tense and anti-Chinese sentiment builds up in India, will ‘Chinese food’ be banned
Union Budget 2020-21: Big plans for storage facilities
Promise of cold storage capacity at villages, warehousing at blocks, refrigerated rail coaches to reduce losses
‘India needs interdisciplinary studies to tackle antibiotic resistance’
New study says that India has the highest rates of resistance to antibiotics despite less consumption
It is not a drought
As they say, drought is a disaster one can see coming. Deficit monsoon creates situations for a drought. But it is not deficit monsoon, rather …
'Kuwait could face serious climate change impacts over the next few decades'
Down To Earth speaks to Salman Zafar, founder of West Asian environmental group, EcoMENA on the green challenges facing the tiny Gulf nation of …
Five African countries pledge to curb illegal timber trade
Urge consumer countries to include the issue of illegal timber as priority agenda in their summits
After Ebola, bird flu hits West Africa
Africans will have to mass cull chicken, an inexpensive source of nutrition in the region
Water shortage deepens in West Asia and North Africa
Around 1.2 billion people, almost one-fifth of the world's population, live in areas of physical scarcity of water, says UN
A taste of mountains
Jakhiya seeds are used for tempering almost all types of vegetables and curries in the Garhwal region
US, epicentre of unequal wealth
As the US completes 50 years of its "war on poverty", the country does not have much to celebrate, thinks JOEL BERG, an expert on …
Hunger levels in India still ‘serious’, shows global hunger index report
Report released by US-based non-profit indicates that 2 billion people in the world suffer from hidden hunger, affecting their health and productivity
Saving for rainy days
People of West Bengal’s Sunderbans region are setting up grain banks to safeguard against food crisis
Mumbai’s urban railway farms
Vegetable fields along railway tracks keep encroachers at bay; provides city residents with farm-fresh produce
In Search of the Forgotten Rice Varieties
If the current trend towards genetic uniformity in rice varities continues, our food security will be severely imperilled
Who are the poor?
Identifying the poor and measuring the poverty is a contentious issue. Poverty line is not a sacred line. At best, it indicates how far the …
Poverty level will increase if health expenditure included
Planning Commission factors in less than one rupee a day as health expenditure in its affidavit to the apex court
Roadside remedy
A common plant growing in the wild in Garhwal, basingu is traded both as a medicinal herb and vegetable
Bonds for a cause
World Bank and African development bank raise funds through financial bonds to meet Caribbean catastrophes and reduce African poverty