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Care turns down US $46 million food aid

The real pandemic

Eat Cameroonian: government

Battle for beef

BIS finalises street food norms

Standard to ensure vendors follow hygienic practices and serve food safe for health

Andhra bans gutkha, paan masala

Becomes 17th state in country to impose ban on them

The desperation of farmers

Toxic metals in snails

For India, with fizz

JPC report sets serious reform agenda on food safety, water security and public health

Persistent organic pollutants can render vaccines ineffective

THE MONEY MAKERS

Riots over food security in Burkina Faso

Southeast Asians worried about food security, extreme weather events, shows climate survey 

ASEAN countries must stop building new coal plants, say over half the respondents 

Monsoon-friendly Assam reeling under drought

Untangling India’s Bt cotton fraud

ICAR’s top research institutes and GEAC exposed in Bt cotton research scam

Taste of toxicity

New study reiterates the adverse effects of chlorpyrifos pesticide

Sugarcane growers in Uttar Pradesh short changed

Best way to check arsenic residues in rice

Climate change affects low-lying areas, puts poor at risk

US attempt to promote corn ethanol challenged

In Court

Punjab chief justice against pesticides

Iron rice: Increasing diversity in diet is a better solution to anaemia than chemical fortification

Instead of fortification, the quality of diet should be improved, experts feel

How COVID-19 measures have affected food safety in East Africa

Livestock and cereal farmers faced a drastic loss of demand