Amidst the backdrop of conflict in West Asia, India's economic landscape finds itself at a crossroads. Although the Reserve Bank of India p...

Food systems are major global crisis drivers. A new report highlights the need for sustainable diets and farming. Current practices harm he...

It said that the company's flagship project has elevated the lives of over 400 farming households in its initial phases. With the third pha...

A report by the United Nations University warns that the northwestern region of India, particularly Punjab and Haryana, is at risk of exper...

Generally, as places become higher income, two forces are at work. First, the relative returns to non-agricultural work increase — so, peop...

Chinese President Xi Jinping has underlined the importance of food security for China, calling for efforts to strengthen farmland protectio...

Nature is declining globally at rates unprecedented in human history and its impact will see extinction of one million of the eight million...

The 2018 report highlights the importance of biodiversity and ecosystem services in the development of the region

Environment Minister Anil Madhav Dave said in a written reply that human-induced emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG), including those from ...

The government has revised norms to give financial assistance of up to 50% to farmers for buying post- harvesting and other equipments used...

Traditional wisdom that got sidelined by modern agriculture has been confirmed in a new study which found that crop rotation – planting dif...

UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) projects an increase in sea level and intensification of present climatic variability.

Ambuja Cement Foundation's systematic Rice Intensification method of farming is increasingly being adopted by farmers in many states.

Tamil Nadu Agricultural University has come out with a Sustainable Sugarcane Initiative to improve productivity of water, land and labour.

The Planning Commission today approved Haryana's Plan expenditure of Rs 27,072 crore for the current fiscal, which is just 2.2 per cent hig...

Pawar today said that agriculture scientists should be allowed to conduct field trials of genetically modified (GM) crops by adopting stric...

World farming needs a “major shift” to more sustainable practices as intensive crop production since the 1960s has degraded soils, depleted...