Experienced hunger for 120 hours while hitchhiking in Europe 50 years ago: Infosys founder Narayana MurthyN R Narayana Murthy shared his 120-hour hunger experience while hitchhiking in Europe at a UN event focusing on food security, India's achi...
03 Apr, 2024, 09.09 PM IST
India for development & permanent solution at WTO, against non-trade issuesPiyush Goyal said that India “firmly believes that any measures taken to combat climate change, including unilateral ones, should not const...
26 Feb, 2024, 09.10 PM IST
India performing better than many developed nations on SDGs: Bibek DebroyAccording to Bibek Debroy, Chairman of the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister (EAC-PM), India is relatively well-performing in...
30 Nov, 2023, 10.38 PM IST
148 million children suffer from stunted growth & malnutrition : UN ReportFive U.N. agencies said in the 2023 State of Food Security and Nutrition report that while global hunger numbers stalled between 2021 and 2...
17 Jul, 2023, 09.05 AM IST
India slips 3 spots to rank 120 on 17 SDG goals adopted as 2030 agenda: ReportWith the latest rankings, India is now behind all south Asian nations except Pakistan, which stands at 129. The south Asian countries ahead...
01 Mar, 2022, 04.47 PM IST
India at 71st on Global Food Security index 2021 of 113 nationsThe GFS Index measures the underlying drivers of food security in 113 countries, based on the factors of affordability, availability, quali...
19 Oct, 2021, 10.04 PM IST
Government working continuously to achieve zero hunger by 2030: Radha Mohan SinghOn agri start-ups, the minister said the government is supporting 150 start-ups out of 200 and supporting entrepreneurs to establish proces...
16 Oct, 2018, 05.28 PM IST
Zero hunger goal to kick off from October 16Though many more districts will eventually be covered under the programme which will work in sync with UN mandated Sustainable Development ...
19 Sep, 2017, 10.46 AM IST
Gorakhpur, Koraput and Thane to launch Zero Hunger Programme on October 16More districts will eventually be covered under this dedicated farm-based programme in sync with India’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDG...
19 Sep, 2017, 10.42 AM IST
Future belongs to countries with grains, not guns: M S SwaminathanHe said that the intentions of Prime Minister Narendra Modi "are good", but things are not happening the way they should at the ground leve...
20 Oct, 2015, 01.10 PM IST
'Conserving crop diversity essential to achieve zero hunger'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...
09 Sep, 2015, 11.35 AM IST
Conserving crop diversity essential to achieve zero hunger: Crop Trust Executive DirectorThe conservation of diversity is also essential as it can bring farmers more and better options in the future, to be more competitive and s...
09 Sep, 2015, 10.56 AM IST
Experts urge government to review food policyObserving that one-third of the world's hungry people were in India, Naidu emphasized the need to give up populist schemes such as freebies.
10 Aug, 2015, 11.40 AM IST
Don't label support to Indian farmers as subsidy: Professor M S Swaminathan to WTOIt is wrong to label support given to farmers in emerging economies like India as subsidy and WTO should come up with measures to end hunge...
29 Jul, 2015, 04.04 PM IST
India needs to work more to address poverty:Food and Agriculture OrganisationIndia, the world's second largest wheat and rice grower, needs to make speedier progress towards reducing the number of hungry people.
08 Sep, 2014, 05.26 PM IST
Vouchers for poor? UN in talks with govt on zero hunger goalSubsidized food vs vouchers is a debate that was thought to have been settled with the Food Guarantee Act, a polarizing issue among the civ...
18 Jul, 2014, 12.01 PM IST
- Annual food wasted enough to feed 500 mn people: FAO
The total food wasted every year globally is enough to feed 500 million people without any extra burden on natural resources, a top officia...
25 Oct, 2012, 05.16 PM IST