India, June 25 -- The Union government has proposed replacing the fixed 35kg monthly foodgrain quota for Antyodaya Anna Yojana households with a 7kg per-person entitlement. The draft National Food Se... Read More
India, June 19 -- India produced 9 per cent of the world's aquatic animals in 2024, making it the second-largest producer globally after China. The country led the world in inland water catches, with... Read More
India, May 20 -- UNCTAD warns the apparent strength in global trade is being skewed by a narrow AI hardware boom in the US and China. It is masking stagnation in traditional industries and commodity ... Read More
India, May 11 -- A new analysis has found that geopolitical turmoil has handed agrifood corporations a windfall, while driving hunger, deforestation, and rural poverty worldwide. Global food corporat... Read More
India, May 8 -- A 51-year analysis of 563 Indian districts showed that just 1degC of warming slashes national average crop yields by about 8%. This erases years of productivity gains. Heat and rainf... Read More
India, May 8 -- EU-Mercosur trade agreement, 25 years in the making, provisionally took effect on May 1, 2026. It created one of the world's largest free trade zones for 700 million consumers. It sl... Read More
India, April 27 -- More than 266 million people in 47 countries faced high levels of acute food insecurity in 2025. Hunger has nearly doubled in a decade, with famines declared in Gaza and parts of S... Read More
India, April 24 -- Extreme heat could make agricultural work unsafe for up to 250 days a year by the end of the century Farm workers are already 35 times more likely to die from heat exposure than ot... Read More
India, April 22 -- By the end of 2025, roughly 30 per cent of the global land surface was gripped by drought - a near-tripling from the 10 per cent recorded in the 1990s, a new analysis published this... Read More
India, April 14 -- While global food inflation remained relatively stable in March, based on the monthly movement of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Food Price Index, pressures are expecte... Read More