Antimicrobial Awareness Week 2021: FAO launches action plan 2021–2025
The new plan aims to extend FAO’s capacity development assistance to its members
Simply Put: Honey fraud
FDA orders withdrawal of ranitidine drug from markets
US drug regulator completes seven-month investigation, finds high levels of carcinogen
Watch: What Sitharaman promised to counter COVID-19
Finance minister announces Rs 1.7 lakh crore relief package
COVID-19: Odisha fishermen feel lockdown heat
Prices plummet drastically, movement of fishermen to other states hit
Kendriya Bhandar to open outlets in more states
More than 60-year-old cooperative commits to Gandhian values to stay relevant
Simply Put: Sugary beverage
Superbugs found in pork products in Walmart US
9 of the 16 Walmart batches tested contained at least one multi-drug-resistant bacteria
Rice yields could plummet 40% by 2100 due to climate change: Stanford University
At least 2 billion people, especially in Asia, could be affected due to the scarcity
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
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
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
Simply put: Log on for mid-day meal
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
Discouraging breastfeeding: 50% pregnant women, parents targeted by misleading baby food marketing
Sales of formula milk more than doubled in last 2 decades
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