Kenya fights drought with sand dams, other water conservation ideas
Kenyans are using traditional water conservation methods to ensure water security and grow crops
People who grow their own food, eat and remain healthy; But erratic weather may change this adage
Without normal weather, self-sufficient households may have to depend more on markets, thus spending more on food than before
Record decline in wheat procurement: Will we have enough on the plate?
The heat in March-April and the export of Indian wheat means the country will be left with fewer stocks to feed itself
World food commodity prices at highest level ever
Russian invasion of Ukraine, unfavourable weather continue to fuel food prices northwards
Global agricultural productivity not growing as fast as food demand: Report
Accelerate investments in agricultural research and development to increase and preserve productivity gains, especially for small farmers
Kerala must opt for heat-tolerant rice varieties for better yield: Study
Rise in temperature and reduction in rainfall under present and future climate scenario affected rice yield, thereby reducing crop maturity time
Over 5.3 mln can face hunger in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger by August: FAO
Farmers and pastoralists affected by internal conflicts, poor access to markets. COVID-19 could aggravate food insecurity
Biodiversity Day: Focus on food biodiversity and human health
Sustainable management of biodiversity in agricultural landscapes and seascapes can support the transition towards healthy diets, says UN …
Implement Food Security Act properly, demand activists protesting hunger deaths
They claim that most of the 45 people, who died of hunger in the country in the past one year, were denied food on failing Aadhaar identification
Kashmir gets warmer
Rising winter temperatures make rain and snowfall erratic in the valley, deplete streams
COP22: opening session on agriculture discusses climate adaptation, food security
Developing countries, especially from Africa, voiced the need to mobilise finance from developed countries
'BRICS countries in a position to shape agricultural policies'
Most of the world’s 795 million undernourished people live in developing countries. These countries will need to increase their food …
Sustainable Development Goals: A paradigm shift in United Nations' fund flow
A report cites the changing funding patterns of the UN and its reliance on corporate partners
Crash in maize production may hit over a million people in Zimbabwe
The entire sub-Saharan African region will be hit hard as maize is the most important cereal crop in here
The Pellipadugu Declaration on Food Sovereignty
Adivasi, dalit, pastoralist and peasant communities declare food security can only be met through Food Sovereignty
`Family farming is not a romantic idea. It is business'
The food price rise of 2007-08 highlighted that investments in the agriculture sector have reduced in the past three decades. One of the most …
Towards wetland conservation
The Union environment ministry has been working for the past four years to create a regulatory framework to protect the country’s wetlands. …
PM should head food security bill: M S Swaminathan
Giving right to food is not enough to deliver food, say speakers at a conference on food security
Survey highlights severe nutrition deficiencies in West Bengal tea workers
Study carried out following death of a tea worker due to starvation
Scaling sustainable food production in face of climate change is the defining challenge of our times
Localised and climate-smart agriculture can help preserve agrobiodiversity and reshape the larger narrative of responsible food production &…
Africa must be priority if humanity is to conquer hunger; but it is only getting worse there
By 2030, Africa will be home to the largest number of undernourished people
WWF: 32 million acres of grasslands across US & Canadian Great Plains ploughed up since 2012
Destruction of grasslands across Great Plains continues at an unsustainable pace
Dying for ration: 70-year-old sustains family as mentally ill daughter, disabled son-in-law denied BPL benefits
Requests for below-poverty line card rejected
No land to farm
With urbanisation of rural areas, space for food production in India is decreasing
The demoralizing esculent
When it was introduced in Europe, people associated the potato with disease