News 360° - Briefs

Superbug prompts antibiotics policy

Standard treatment guidelines will determine drug prescription

Over 2.8 billion people may be pushed into living in areas with severe ecological threats by 2050

More than half of hotspot countries facing a severe threat are in sub-Saharan Africa

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

Climate impact on health: India’s heat-related deaths went up by 55%, finds Lancet data

Countries, companies continue to make choices threatening health of the people

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

New polyhouse technology to help cultivate off-season crops

Genetic secrets of peanut varieties unveiled

Scientists found that its sequence was comparable in size to that of the human genome

Unsafe food is 'growing global threat', says WHO

Organisation estimates that unsafe food contributed to 351,000 deaths in 2010

Monsanto shuns GM

GM Food>> Monsanto • UK

Bitter way to slow ageing

Indian researchers find bitter cumin contains antioxidants

Malachite green: a carcinoge

Tightening up

To rein in beverages industry

In court

The demoralizing esculent

When it was introduced in Europe, people associated the potato with disease

Spotted rice gets clean chit

The fate of 400,000 tonnes of rice hung in balance for more than a year

Fined for not disclosing cola recipe

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India bans export of non-basmati rice

Pricing food in poor India

India downplays scare over stem rust threat to wheat crops from Uganda

Agriculture Don't fix is the government's fix

Turkmenistan dismisses five governors over food shortage unrest

Science & Technology - Briefs

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 …