Food fudge: A graphical guide on attempts to dilute nutritional thresholds

A working group of FSSAI prepared thresholds for fat, sugar and salt this year. Here is what is wrong with them 

UN Food Systems Summit: Sanctioning the status quo

The Summit fails to meet the basic conditions for good governance: Meaningful participation, transparency and accountability

Supreme Court notice to Centre, states on honey adulteration plea based on CSE probe

CSE probe last year, brought to you by Down To Earth, exposed how Indian honey brands have been taking consumers for a ride

17% of all food available at consumer levels was wasted in 2019, reveals Food Waste Index

Reducing food waste would also help improve food security, address climate change, save money and lower pressures on the environment  

Climate resilient agriculture systems: The way ahead

Climate resilient agriculture practices can help reduce hunger and poverty in the face of climate change   

Nutritional security could have made the fight against COVID-19 easier

This weak link between growth in income and nutritional outcomes requires the attention of policy makers

Jharkhand’s community kitchens: Making a mockery of food security?

The state's Dal Bhat Yojana was meant to provide some food security to those struggling to make ends meet by providing them hygienic and …

Economic Survey 2018-19: Growth slowest in five years due to low food inflation

Agriculture sector contracted in fourth quarter; farmers produced less, spent less on consumption

A third of world’s children with stunting live in India: Report

The Global Nutrition Report outlines what the world consumes and how it’s affecting the health of children and adults

A lesser known rice bean that's healthier than most

Despite having immense nutritive and medicinal properties, the rice bean is a lesser-known pulse

Popeye would like this spinach

Tree spinach, or chayamansa, is nothing less than a superfood for humans as well as livestock

Sustainable diets will remain a minefield until we change the way we approach food

With profit-making still at the top of the food industry agenda, we need more than consumer power alone to achieve a truly sustainable food system

Agriculture becomes casualty of Syrian war, incurs losses worth US$18 billion

Agriculture is a crucial safety net in the rural areas, and its loss may increase internal and external migration

Sustainable rice production key to food security

Though a staple crop in many countries, rice production is facing the impact of extreme weather events such as droughts and floods

Assuring tenure rights to pastoralists can ensure food security

Over 500 million people rely on livestock herding in rangelands. They move from one place to another in search of pasture and to avoid drought, …

UN food agency predicts bumper wheat, rice harvests

The global rice production is also predicted to expand for the first time in three years, mainly due to abundant monsoon rains in Asia and …

How will the drought in India affect food prices worldwide?

Cristina Coslet is Country Monitor, Far East Asia at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Migrants pay more for native cuisine even at the cost of nutrition finds study

The study Caloric Costs of Culture: Evidence from Indian Migrants appears in the American Economic Review

Food labels should disclose public health impacts, says minister

Union Minister for Consumer Affairs minister Ram Vilas Paswan promises to write to the health ministry 

After last year’s drought, food production in Syria sees a boost this year

Good rains have improved production, but it still is not close to pre-crisis levels, say UN agencies

Simply Put: To eat or not to eat

Simply Put: Gender gaps in food

Simply put : Food vs Politics

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