Half of the world’s hungry people live in Asia-Pacific; Southern Asia worst affected: FAO
Higher food, feed, and fuel prices, combined with a slow recovery from COVID-19 pandemic to blame; women fared worse in food insecurity
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
Gender gaps in food: 150 million more women went hungry than men in 2021
Over 800 million went hungry last year; Gender equality and food security directly related, says report
Russia, Ukraine reach landmark deal to resume Kyiv’s grain exports from Black Sea ports
The deal opens a path for significant volumes of commercial food exports from three key Ukrainian ports in the Black Sea namely Odesa, …
United Nations Food Systems Summit: Need to transform food systems, say experts
More than 90 heads of states and governments submitted their national strategies, commitments to strengthening food systems at the Summit &…
Not so wild: Sickle senna is widely available, nutritious but not much known
Sickle senna, a widely available but little-known herb, is ready to take on the pharma industry
10.9 million people died due to poor diets in 2017: Report
Global Burden of Disease study highlights how low consumption of healthy food is better than more consumption of unhealthy foods
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
Simply Put: To eat or not to eat
Simply Put: Gender gaps in food
Simply put : Food vs Politics
Food labelling: Why you are not aware of what you eat
A 3-part series which reveals that not only does India not have a clear labelling system to warn consumers about harmful levels of fat, sugar and …
The science behind the art of cooking
Cooking is an art, most would say. However, at its root, cooking is a form of chemical engineering, writes Krish Ashok in his recent book, Masala …
Nanotechnology can make plant-based food preservatives more effective
The formulation can arrest the growth of microbes at lower concentration’ It can also restrict toxin production by preventing the microbe …
Researchers find new carbohydrate in barley
Research in Australian varsity shows the polysaccharide occurs due to biosynthesis
Climate change: Over a million farming households face acute food shortage in Zambia, warns Oxfam
A severe drought, worsened by climate change & El Nino, has caused massive crop failures for half of the nation’s planted area
Eating disorders are deadly: What are they, who’s at risk and what can be done about it
Eating disorders occur 10 times more often in females than in males
A year of hunger: How the Russia-Ukraine war is worsening climate-linked food shortages
Many low-income nations who are net food importers are bracing for a year of hunger
Climate change: Food production in Africa’s Sudano-Sahelian Zone under threat, finds study
The Sudano-Sahelian Zone in Africa is the most vulnerable to climate change
COVID-19: Food wastage on the rise
Lockdowns have led to hoarding and higher supply chain wastage
India to import 3 mln tonnes of pulses in 2020-21
Import could lower prices of domestic pulses, increasing losses to farmers
Restaurants turn to indigenous foods for lucrative business
Serving local cuisines comes with major operational challenges too
Here's why home-cooked food is healthier
Look no further than the plate you are served in
Food crisis in Africa: The high cost of imported fertilisers is adding to the problem
If farmers earned better returns, with cheaper input costs, then production could be a multiple of the current levels
World is not doing enough to end hunger by 2030: UN
Food inflation on unprecedented rise triggered by COVID-19 pandemic, Russia-Ukraine war