Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Akhilesh Kumar Vs State of Uttar Pradesh & Others dated 23/05/2025. The matter related to illegal mining activites carried out by Jai Maa Chandrika Enterprises, Rajendra Nagar, village Kabari, district Mahoba, Uttar Pradesh. The applicant also alleged about illegal sale …
Food inflation in India has remained stubborn in recent years. A number of proximate factors such as increasing demand particularly arising from higher rural wages, rising agricultural cost of production, changing consumption pattern favoring protein items, increases in minimum support prices (MSPs) and droughts in certain years are believed to …
World food prices have hit a four-year low, a UN agency reported on Thursday, with record harvests breathing new hope into the fight against hunger, though some "hunger hotspots" remain. Global wheat production is forecast to reach a record high in 2014, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said in …
FAO today launched a new programme to urgently assist 90 000 vulnerable households in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone whose food supplies and livelihoods are threatened by the disruptive effect the Ebola epidemic is having on rural economies, agricultural activities and markets. The Regional Response Programme for West Africa will …
In view of increasing threat of climate change, extreme whether conditions, and recent financial crisis there has been a concern for augmenting agriculture and food supply to growing population, particularly to the rural areas. Fortunately the communities living near biodiversity rich areas depend on wide variety of plant resources for …
DIPAYAL: Folks of hilly districts in the far-west are facing food crisis due to obstruction of supply of food grain after the road was damaged due to landslide some two-and-a-half months ago. The roads of hilly districts, including Bajura, Bajhang, Achham and Doti, among others, were swept away in the …
As world leaders meet in New York for yet another climate change summit, concerns over wild weather patterns disrupting food supplies are increasingly finding their way to the table. About 500 million farmers in South Asia and Africa need help developing "climate smart agriculture" by 2030 to brace themselves for …
The number of hungry people in the world has fallen sharply over the past decade but 805 million, or one in nine of the global population, still do not have enough to eat, three U.N. food and agriculture agencies said on Tuesday. The number of chronically undernourished people dropped by …
This study assesses the changing consumption patterns of rice in Bangladesh and its implications on water demand by 2030. Rice dominates food and water consumption patterns in the country; it contributed to 72% of the total calorie supply from food, and 81% and 79% of the total cropped and irrigated …
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro ordered the creation of a fingerprinting system in stores that sell food to limit smuggling of subsidized staple products to neighbouring countries. The system, announced late on Wednesday, is meant to ease chronic shortages of consumer products ranging from cooking oil to toilet paper by preventing …
The level of food poverty in Scotland is "simply not acceptable", Nicola Sturgeon has said. The deputy first minister announced £518,000 in funding aimed at tackling food poverty for 26 projects across Scotland. She blamed welfare changes introduced by the UK government for a rise in food bank use. Labour …
"It is looking exceptional this year," says William Pitts, as the torrent of golden wheat ears sweeps into the flashing blades below the cab of his combine harvester. In the next hour, about 50 tonnes of wheat will pour out of the combine into waiting trucks as it clears the …
Low fruit and vegetable (FV) intake is a leading risk factor for chronic disease globally, but much of the world’s population does not consume the recommended servings of FV daily. It remains unknown whether global supply of FV is sufficient to meet current and growing population needs. We sought to …
The ICIMOD and GRID-Arendal have released a report detailing the food security and agricultural situation in the Hindu Kush Himalayas (HKH). The publication considers how food security is being affected by changing socioeconomic and environmental conditions in the region, including climate change and rising global food prices. The report, titled …
Water and land resources are under increasing pressure in many parts of the globe. Diet change has been suggested as a measure to contribute to adequate food security for the growing population. This paper assesses the impact of diet change on the blue and green water footprints of food consumption. …
MPs raise concerns over Government relying on research funded by pesticide manufacturers to determine the harm their products cause to bees Pesticides linked to bee decline must be banned, a parliamentary report has said The Government has been accused of “putting the needs of commerce ahead of the needs of …
With the widening of the food security cover, an additional 1.2 lakh families in Delhi began receiving subsidised food under the Food Security Act from July. Entitlement While food security cards are being delivered to the new beneficiaries, an additional 1,64,259 families comprising 5,55,325 members have also been added to …
BHUBANESWAR: The Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a 2008 order of the state government imposing a bar on dealing in public distribution system (PDS) items by persons having commercial interests in the same commodities. "Our counsel in New Delhi informed me that the apex court has upheld our notification. We …
Some four million people in South Sudan are likely to face critical food shortages next month, British aid agencies have warned. But the Disasters Emergency Committee says the cost of mounting an appeal to pay for aid might outweigh donations. South Sudan's president has already warned of "one of worst …
