Pulse tales: What is Indian food without them?
Pulses are found in every corner of the country and are essential in Indian cuisine
World Health Day 2022: Here’s looking at health, food & India
Climate change & locust infestations: FAO seeks adaptation plans at CoP26 event
Robust early warning system and governance with secured funding needed
Food systems and COP28: Will Parties agree on a sustainable approach?
COP28 has set a precedent by dedicating a thematic day to food systems
Simply Put: Warding off evil spirits?
A sour companion: The hog plum has much to offer, if people get past its strong taste
Hog plum is a great souring agent and can help in cancer, diabetes treatments
Somalia: Drought forced more than 450,000 people from their homes this year
Around 1.4 million children could be acutely malnourished by mid-year
Simply put: How to index India’s petrol prices
Sustainable forestry paramount for biodiversity conservation: FAO
Report finds weak governance, law enforcement biggest stumbling blocks
Feeding Africa: How small-scale irrigation can help farmers to change the game
Small-scale irrigation can improve nutritional outcomes in several important ways
Antimicrobial Awareness Week 2021: FAO launches action plan 2021–2025
The new plan aims to extend FAO’s capacity development assistance to its members
Unprecedented 93% of population in Gaza facing crisis levels of hunger, warns WHO
Region already reporting soaring rates of infectious diseases, hunger is expected to worsen illnesses
Rumoured forbidden: It’s time to banish fears around ‘Khesari Dal’ and relish the nutritious legume
Grass pea, linked to lathyrism in British India, could provide food security when conventional crops are failing due to climate change
Simply Put: Childhood diabetes
Less than half of hunger funding needs met, says report
Countries experiencing the worst hunger crisis received less hunger funding
The importance (and baggage) of ghee
The social standing of ghee is heavier than the health one
Most number of people in need of aid in Ethiopia, Yemen, DRC & Afghanistan in 2021
Need for humanitarian aid reached an all-time high during January 2018-December 2021
Is eastern Africa’s drought the worst in recent history? And are worse yet to come?
Human-induced warming has raised the temperature of the western Pacific Ocean
How poverty and violence are linked with anxiety in young South Africans
More than 8% reported anxiety disorder in the past year in South Africa
In Himachal Pradesh, Hindus and Buddhists organise religious ceremonies for rain & snow
With the 3-month-long dry spell continuing in the state, people say they have been left with few alternatives
Maharashtra unseasonal rains likely to damage onions, wheat, grapes
Along with a drop in price, the conditions will bolster pest attacks, farmers say
Global food crisis: 1 new child suffers severe malnutrition every 60 seconds, says UNICEF
Almost 8 million children, mainly in Africa, at risk of deaths from severe wasting
Excess rainfall in Nov-Dec, early heat: Why lime production was hit in Andhra, India's largest producer
Gujarat, Maharashtra also affected, prices to come down in a fortnight, say experts
Discouraging breastfeeding: 50% pregnant women, parents targeted by misleading baby food marketing
Sales of formula milk more than doubled in last 2 decades
CoP26 report card: Agriculture continues to remain subterranean even in Glasgow
Resource-intensive food systems subsidised by rich countries live another day