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A major new report makes the case for water as a global common good
October 21, 2024 7:12 am
A report by the Global Commission on the Economics of Water suggests a global pact to conserve water. For that to happen, however, countries must tweak its findings to their contexts. India, for instance, would need to find better ways to resolve conflicts over aquifers within their borders before thinking of a global pact
Why heat, not rain, matters more for inflation and rural demand
October 05, 2024 9:21 am
There could be a few reasons for this: With better irrigation, low rains are less of problem; useful information contained in the reservoir variable already gets picked up by temperatures; and lastly, there is a non-linear relationship between temperatures and food inflation
Food choices key to tackling global warming, study finds
June 17, 2023 11:49 am
Researchers analyzed data linking emissions to consumers between 2000 and 2019, revealing that in 2019, food consumption in the five highest emitting countries, China, India, Indonesia, Brazil, and the US, was responsible for more than 40 percent of the global food supply chain emissions.
China’s bid to improve food production? Giant towers of pigs
February 09, 2023 9:38 am
The building, located on the outskirts of Ezhou, a city on the southern bank of the Yangtze River, is being hailed as the world’s biggest free-standing pig farm with a second identical hog high-rise opening soon.
Food grain production estimated to reach new high of 150 million tonnes in 2021-22: Centre
September 22, 2021 7:39 am
However, kharif oilseed production is estimated at 2.33 million, which is lower than its target of 26 million tonnes and last year’s production of 24.03 million tonnes.
What pairs with beetle? Startups seek to make bugs tasty
July 15, 2021 3:11 pm
Around the world, 2 billion people in 130 countries eat insects regularly. The global edible insect market is poised to boom, according to investment bank Barclay's, citing data from Meticulous Research that forecasts it will grow from less than USD 1 billion in 2019 to USD 8 billion by 2030.
Ghosts Of Ship-To-Mouth
January 28, 2016 12:00 am
Price spikes, production fluctuations challenge us, not insufficient food production
El Nino threatens to return, hit global food production
February 21, 2014 4:12 pm
El Nino in 2009 turned India's monsoon patchy, leading to the worst drought in nearly four decades.
Badal: Centres policies harming farmer interests
April 09, 2014 1:04 pm
Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on Saturday said the anti-farmer stance of the Congress-led UPA government has broken the back of the farmers who have played a pivotal role in making the country self-reliant in food production
Maharashtra expects 40% increase in food production this year
April 09, 2014 5:48 pm
The government expects 40 per cent increase in food production this year. Kharif crop has been sowed on 73.8 per cent of the 134.69 lakh hectares of cultivable land in the state. Same time last year,the sowing was 49 per cent.
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