Famine creeps in on Africa while the world’s media looks elsewhere

The western media's focus on events at home like the US elections and the UK Brexit referendum has come at the expense of reporting on the famine …

Digitising agriculture in face of climate change

Extreme weather and changing geography threatened food security and livelihood in Africa and Asia this year. Digitising agriculture has become a …

Forestry should be tied with agriculture for socio-economic development

While agriculture can feed the world’s population, it is responsible for deforestation globally. The SOFO report shows how food security …

Quick facts about the world’s livestock economy

A recent report reveals the world's dependence on livestock for food, economic security, trade, and inter-dependence with agriculture in both …

Over 100 cities pledge to make food systems sustainable in urban areas

Urban centres will be key actors in achieving Sustainable Development Goals, including eradication of hunger by 2030:FAO chief

Forests could help eliminate global hunger, says report

Tree foods are often rich in vitamins, proteins and other vital nutrients. They can provide a diverse diet to people worldwide

Model in a fix

Chhattisgarh's much appreciated public distribution scheme is falling apart due to corruption and mismanagement

Soil microbiomes should be included in One Health goals: Study

Ignoring soil microbiomes and their role may lead to pandemics

Food production will need 165-600 million hectares more land to meet demand by 2050

Need to halt deforestation while ensuring food security, says report by FAO

India bans broken rice export; 20% duty on other grades

Weak monsoon has led to reduction in paddy acreage this Kharif

Not a promissory note

Demonetisation casts a long shadow over the rural economy

Venezuela food crisis, fallout of a mismanaged economy

A whopping 87 per cent of Venezuelans say they don't have money to buy enough food

Central African Republic in grip of food crisis

Cereal production and livestock reaing have been affected to a great extent

El Niño casts shadow on crop prospects; Food Price Index falls

Reduced crop production has severely affected food security in southern Africa

Dwarfed by climate change

Animals, plants stunt as global warming alters metabolism  

Why Russia isn't signing Kyoto

The net is cast on agriculture

Aquaculture on the rise

In Court

Disruption in Black Sea Grain Initiative can worsen food security across Middle East, North Africa: Report

Ban on rice export from India, fragile macroeconomic conditions may led to unprecedented food inflation in Middle East, North Africa

Africa Climate Summit 2023: Invest in resilient, efficient and sustainable food system, leaders urge

Minimising post-harvest food losses and waste, transiting to nature-based solution, among solutions advocated 

Bluewashing: Report flags how corporates have wormed their way into global food governance

Experts called the 2021 UN Food Systems Summit a watershed moment in drawing attention to corporate influence over public food governance

India's ambitious plan to boost biofuel likely to fail without roadmap

In Chhattisgarh, which was supposed to emerge as a biofuel hub by 2014, the plan for establishing biodiesel industry never took off

Why is there a wheat crisis in Pakistan?

Experts say that the crisis has been caused by several reasons, the first being the Russia-Ukraine war

Lake Chad Basin: 1.4 million children displaced; many suffer from malnutrition

About 67,000 children under five are likely to die in Nigeria’s Borno and Yobe states in September

How true were PM Modi’s claims made during Independence Day speech?

A probing look into his claims reveals that not all that he said is in sync with the official data