Prime Minister Narendra Modi has collaborated with Grammy Award-winning Indian-American singer Falu for a special song to promote the benefits of millets and their potential to alleviate world......
A Thai woman who recently died of bird flu probably caught the disease from her daughter, making her the first victim in the latest outbreak to get the lethal diseasefrom another human, report......
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......
I suggest we build a Vigyan Mandir (Temple of Science) with the ambience of a place of worship, so that it becomes a destination for pilgrims.We should embed on its walls bronze plaques describing......
Dr James Levine, who works at Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, spends much of his time trying to find solutions to what he terms "people's ill-health" and on understanding NEAT. NEAT stands for......
The UN Food and Agriculture Organization has cautioned that the impact of the current financial crisis on the agricultural sector could mean a surge in food prices in the coming year even as global......
The Codex Alimentarius Commission, jointly run by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization and the World Health Organization, for food safety, has recently agreed on a new set of regulations --......
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......
Food prices are expected to remain volatile globally over the next few years and countries including India will have to adapt to the volatility, UN body Food and Agriculture Organization has said.......
Holding the agriculture and forestry sectors responsible for contributing nearly one-third of the total green house gasemissions, a United Nations body has suggested greater allocation of resources......