Nestle scare

Contaminated baby milk products recalled in EU

Jaggery made using time-tested method is more wholesome

Arsenic linked to diabetes

Elemental woe

Future shock, this?

Online

Farmers demand complete ban on GM crops

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

Simply put: Strike of the fall armyworm

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

Simply put: What’s cooking in lockdown

Pulses production in 2019-20 will reduce due to erratic monsoon: IPGA

Trade body also demands of removal of import restriction and quota on green peas

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

Less than half of hunger funding needs met, says report

Countries experiencing the worst hunger crisis received less hunger funding

Simply put: Log on for mid-day meal

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Should children drink beer?

A campaign against dairy products has been launched by an overzealous NGO

Signatory to biosafety

News Snippets

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

Over the next decade, demand for cereals to grow only in low-income regions

Per capita meat consumption will grow most strongly in the developed world