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
Poor harvest in 2019 may push 6.3 million Somalis to hunger by year end
The rainy season in 2019 has been the third-driest in Somalia since the early 1980s
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
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
Analysing climate-induced productivity growth in Indian agriculture
State-specific policy initiatives that allow each state’s agricultural production to reach its full potential are more likely to succeed …
Dying for ration: These Barmer widows and orphans are being turned away from PDS shops
Settlement has lost most of its men to liquor abuse; Women work as waste pickers
Climate change & locust infestations: FAO seeks adaptation plans at CoP26 event
Robust early warning system and governance with secured funding needed
Food prices are expected to rise more, and cost may be too heavy to bear for many
Climate crisis may undo last century’s achievement in curbing extreme hunger
Foodgrains from the Centre to states fell by almost four million tonnes in last three years: Data
Distribution was less than release in at least 15 states
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
Acute food insecurity: 4 African countries remain at highest concern level
Burkina Faso, Mali, South Sudan and Sudan remain at the highest level of concern, finds report by FAO, WFP
Southeast Asians worried about food security, extreme weather events, shows climate survey
ASEAN countries must stop building new coal plants, say over half the respondents
Dying for ration: Tribal beneficiaries of Jharkhand PDS don’t have salt, surviving on plain boiled rice
Ration cards for many cancelled; Landless villagers migrate to city for work
Madhya Pradesh assembly elections: Will MSP promises make a difference?
Madhya Pradesh government at present is buying 36% of wheat produce, 19% of paddy from farmers
As told to Parliament (March 23, 2022): Thermal plants coal stock at 39% of normative requirement
All that was discussed in the House through the day
COVID-19: Around 45 mln pushed into global food insecurity, says FAO report
Around 33 million reside in South and South east Asia, remainder in sub-Saharan Africa
Unable to get food, Adivasi tea worker in north Bengal estate dies of starvation
Fact-finding team formed by independent labour organisations reveals the worker and his wife had no access to food under the public …
Climate change, war disrupting global trade in 3 key sea lanes of Black Sea, Red Sea & Panama Canal: UNCTAD
UN body warns that prolonged interruptions, particularly in container shipping, poses a direct threat to global supply chains
Making global food systems more sustainable has economic benefits 20 times the cost, finds report
Investing $500 billion per year could reduce diet-related mortality by 36%, save 174 million lives from premature deaths
Agriculture, fisheries take spotlight at WTO meet in Abu Dhabi
India backs permanent solution for public stockholding of food grains even as developing nations attack it
Americans aren’t getting enough to eat during COVID-19 pandemic. Here’s what’s happening in Los Angeles County
The Los Angeles crisis surged the most in April, when 26% of all households — and 39% of low-income households — experienced food …
‘Insect farming can be done efficiently in urban areas’
Down To Earth speaks to Dave Gracer, president of Small Stock Food Strategies, about why insects can be introduced in the diets of non-vegetarians
Climate change eats into output of top 10 food crops
Production decreased unequally for barley, cassava, maize, oil palm, rapeseed, rice, sorghum, soybean, sugarcane and wheat