Europe is the fastest-warming continent, and the impacts of climate change are clear. 2024 was the warmest year on record for Europe. Storms were often severe and flooding widespread, claiming at least 335 lives and affecting an estimated 413 000 people. During the year, there was a striking east-west contrast …
RASHME SEHGAL Underinvestment by successive goverments has seen a marked decline in agriculture across both developing and developed countries, warns the UN's recently released World Investment Report which focuses on transnational corporations, agricultural production and development. The total share of invest I ment in agriculture has fall en from a …
Chennai: Melting Himalayan glaciers and other climate change impacts pose a direct threat to the water and food security of more than 1.6 billion people in South Asia, according to preliminary findings of a new study financed by the Asian Development Bank (ADB). Analysing the current trends and scenarios based …
Ludhiana: Punjab alone can rescue the entire nation from food crisis emerging out of the negative state of monsoon. This was stated by Harish Chander, President, Food Corporation of India Officers Association of Punjab (FCIOA) and Regional Manager, FCI, here today. He said the FCI was confident that the Central …
Ajay Modi / New Delhi August 06, 2009, 0:20 IST The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) has brought together 20 countries, including China, Brazil and India, through a portal where food and agricultural policy makers will exchange their food-related problems and the measures adopted to tackle them. The purpose …
SARAH BOSELEY Senior doctors in the U.K. recently published a report warning that climate change is the biggest threat to global health of the 21st century. Rising global temperatures would have a catastrophic effect on human health, the doctors said, and patterns of infection would change, with insect-borne diseases such …
AIZAWL, May 17: Food scarcity has hit Mizoram as rice, the staple food of the state, could not be transported through trains due to militancy in neighbouring Asom, official sources said here.They said that train services in Asom were disrupted following recent attacks on trains by suspected Dimasa rebels on …
DINDIGUL: Concrete plans are essential to protect agriculture and prevent migration of farmers to neighbouring towns and cities of survival. Ensuring better price for agriculture produces, bridging gap between lab and land and protecting existing cultivable lands alone will save agriculture and agriculturists in future, said Dindigul MLA K. Balabarathi. …
Jon Vidal No one could have predicted quite how dramatically 2008 would have ended. Even as President Bush was slashing his way through U.S. environmental protection laws, president-elect Obama appointed Nobel prize-winning physicist Steve Chu as the next U.S. energy secretary. Chu is seen as the repudiation of everything that …
Cereal consumption in India has further declined in both urban and rural areas, even though families are spending more on it. This worrisome trend has been reported by the latest National Sample Survey (NSS) report released on Friday. It also reports that monthly per capita expenditure, unadjusted to inflation, has …
Over the last two years there has been a rapid rise in the world prices of almost all basic foods like rice, wheat, maize, soyabeans, edible oils etc. leading to high incidence of hunger and malnutrition around the world. This is a serious threat to the global economy, where millions …
Juliette Jowit Study looks at food impact on greenhouse gases. People will have to be rationed to four modest portions of meat and one litre of milk a week if the world is to avoid run-away climate change, a major new report warns. The report, by the Food Climate Research …
Gargi Parsai NEW DELHI: To meet the challenge of food demand of a growing population in developing countries, cereal yields will have to be increased by 40 per cent and net irrigation water requirements by40-50 per cent. An additional 100200 million hectares of land may be required to meet double …
