Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Are missing palm trees causing more lighting deaths in Bihar appearing in ‘The Times of India’ dated 29.05.2025". The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Are missing palm trees causing …
India has expressed concern over the increasing use of food grains for the production of bio fuels. Stating India's position at the "Third International Grain Summit-2008' at Sharm-el Sheikh, Egypt, minister of state for food and public distribution Akhilesh Prasad Singh said this had resulted in an unprecedented increase in …
By Raphael Minder in Hong Kong, John Aglionby in Jakarta,,Amy Yee in New Delhi, and Daniel Ten Kate in Bangkok For years, farmers in the remote village of Pallantikang on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi relied on middlemen to sell their produce and found themselves largely isolated from the realities …
Soaring food prices are making holes into the wallets of consumers but throwing a golden opportunity to poor farmers in Asia, including India, to ramp up production and increase profits, a report by think tank International Food Policy Research Institute has said. "The years of falling food prices were good …
Global investment funds smelt greater profit potential in commodities than in stocks and from 2002 started diving into oil, followed by metals and grains NEW YORK, April 2: High food prices around the world? Blame, at least in part, the investors who moved their money into commodities in the past …
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) will provide approximately 90,000 metric tons of food aid worth $67.8 million to Bangladesh this year. One third of the food aid will be used to assist Cyclone Sidr affected people of Barguna and Bagerhat districts and the rest will be distributed …
The anti-inflation package hammered out by the Cabinet Committee on Prices (CCP) in a marathon three-hour-long meeting on Monday night makes it clear that the government is short of ideas. This is not to suggest that there are obvious solutions waiting to be tapped. The truth is that the nature …
Cheaper imports negatively impacts food security; it seems the government is not bothered about this fact. Read this in tandem. India has drastically reduced import duties on edible oils and rice in a bid to check rising inflation. While the import tariff on rice has been brought down to zero, …
The Bharatiya Janata Party has charged the United Progressive Alliance government with "mismanagement of the food economy' and warned that prices of cereals, pulses, edible oil, and other essentials would continue to rise affecting the poorest the most. Even as the per capita production of cereals in the country had …
Global agricultural commodity prices, which are rising for the last two years, are expected to remain high in the near future, according to the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO). FAO, along with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in a recent report on food inflation, has indicated that the …
Sitting on a stock of 5.5 million tonnes of wheat before the marketing season, the Food Corporation of India (FCI) today expressed confidence that it would meet the government's procurement target of 1.5 million tonnes for public distribution system. "The closing stock is 5.5 million tonnes as against the buffer …
Cabinet Committee on Prices holds emergency meet late in the evening at PM's residence BS Reporters / New Delhi April 01, 2008 Scraps import duties on edible oil; pulses exports ban stays. Taken by surprise over the recent spike in wholesale price inflation, the government today scrapped import duties on …
In many poor countries, the recent increases in prices of staple foods raise the real incomes of those selling food, many of whom are relatively poor, while hurting net food consumers, many of whom are also relatively poor. The impacts on poverty will certainly be very diverse, but the average …
Food prices are soaring, a wealthier Asia is demanding better food and farmers cannot keep up. In short, the world faces a food crisis and in some places it is already boiling over. Around the globe, people are protesting and governments are responding with often counterproductive controls on prices and …
The recent spike in global food prices and the short-sighted policy responses that accentuate volatility in prices threaten to push large numbers of people back below the poverty line
The recent spike in global food prices and the short-sighted policy responses that accentuate volatility in prices threaten to push large numbers of people back below the poverty line
PARIS: Spare a thought for the world's poor and hungry when you tune into the next episode of U.S. recession watch this week. Sky-high food prices are prompting one country after another to curtail exports in favor of domestic supply, a trend India joined Friday hard on the heels of …
HANOI: Rising prices and a growing fear of scarcity have prompted some of the world's largest rice producers to announce drastic limits on the amount of rice they export. The price of rice, a staple in the diets of nearly half the world's population, has almost doubled on international markets …
South Korea has purchased the first shipment of genetically modified (gm) corn for use in food industries. By the first week of March, the Korean Corn Processing Industry Association bought more than 768,000 tonnes of gm corn, most of them from the us. The association, accounting for 90 per cent …
During the last few days, questions and replies in the Assam Assembly relating to the food situation in the State have been a major cause for concern. This is not to suggest that we repose unquestioned faith in the replies and statistics furnished in Assembly or Parliament. But in a …
Philippine fast-food chains are to begin offering half servings of rice in a move to help the government ease demand for the staple and avert a possible shortage with global rice inventories sitting at 25-year lows. Jollibee Foods, the country's biggest restaurant chain, with more than 600 stores, said its …
