Centre's Locust Warning Organization will press into service 25 drones and buy 60 more vehicle-mounted insecticide spraying machines to counter the attack of locust swarms in the near future, an......
Forget tofu or soy milk. Entrepreneurs out of South Africa have opened a pop-up restaurant dedicated to serving gourmet meals, all made from alternative, insect-based ingredients. Welcome to......
The 2020 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to the United Nations World Food Programme for its efforts to combat hunger. The Norwegian Nobel Committee said the WFP had acted "as a driving force in......
Ducks, rice and human beings -- and not chickens are the "most significant factors" behind persistent outbreaks of bird flu, a new study has claimed. The study released by United Nations Food and......
Warning that bird flu could "spin out of control," claiming millions of lives, if it acquired the ability of human-to-human transmission, United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan has asked the......
Nearly a third of an average Indian citizen's consumption budget is spent on food. Photograph: Shailesh Andrade/Reuters A spectre is haunting many parts of the world and India isn't spared: Food......
The highest water-use efficiency of more than $ 50 per cubic metre is in Oceania, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Israel, Denmark, Finland, and Great Britain while the lowest is in Central and......
Global warming threat has forced all developing nations to go for bio-fuel in a big way. The case of India is also not different. However, the increased demand for bio-fuel has fueled the prices of......
The United Nations on Friday expressed concern that food prices continue to remain high in developing countries, hurting millions of poor in both rural and urban areas. "The high food price......
Real Good Chicken, the flagship brand of Godrej Agrovet Ltd and a leading player in the fresh chicken category in the Indian market has received the HACCP and ISO 9001-2000 certification from Det......