The Global Hunger Index 2024 ranks India 105th, under the 'serious' category, with high levels of undernourishment and child mortality. Ind...

The Tata-Cornell Institute for Agriculture and Nutrition (TCI) at Cornell University has found that Bihar can significantly reduce greenhou...

With the latest rankings, India is now behind all south Asian nations except Pakistan, which stands at 129. The south Asian countries ahead...

The government is considering carrying out a food consumption survey, last done in 2012 to get updated data on consumption patterns across ...

A report issued jointly by five UN agencies said hunger outpaced population growth in 2020, with nearly 10% of all people estimated to be u...

On agri start-ups, the minister said the government is supporting 150 start-ups out of 200 and supporting entrepreneurs to establish proces...

Though many more districts will eventually be covered under the programme which will work in sync with UN mandated Sustainable Development ...

More districts will eventually be covered under this dedicated farm-based programme in sync with India’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDG...

Ankit Kawatra is the founder of Feeding India, a not-for profit organization that aims to solve hunger, malnutrition and food waste.

Hunger poses a significant economic burden, both on individuals and on national economies. The cost of hunger to developing nations is esti...

With the twin challenges of population growth and climate change, there is a need to conserve native seeds from the world over that will he...

The conservation of diversity is also essential as it can bring farmers more and better options in the future, to be more competitive and s...

India, the world's second largest wheat and rice grower, needs to make speedier progress towards reducing the number of hungry people.

Subsidized food vs vouchers is a debate that was thought to have been settled with the Food Guarantee Act, a polarizing issue among the civ...

The total food wasted every year globally is enough to feed 500 million people without any extra burden on natural resources, a top officia...

According to the 2008 Global Hunger Index, the major threat of hunger is in 33 countries including India. Its hunger rate fell to 23.7 poin...

Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has said global food aid given on time and directly to people suffering from malnutrition and hunge...