Full Coverage: Food

31.01.2006 THE TALLY is growing. First it was confined to the frontline agricultural State of Punjab. But now the ultimate symbol of growing rural despair — putting villages up for sale — has spread to central India. Dorli, a sleepy village in Maharashtra's Wardha district, has sounded the bugle.

31.01.2006 Crops grown by small farmers are central to food security, health, economic growth, poverty reduction, and social stability in these regions. In determining how best to exploit the existing capacity for genome sequencing, therefore, we believe that crops essential to resource-poor farmers in developing countries should be given highest priority.

27.01.2006 We observe that poverty of nations instead of wealth of nations and simultaneous wealth of transnational corporations. The wealth of the world has increased -- multinationals are becoming wealthier, but the majority of the people of the world and most nations of the world, the Least Developed Countries (LDCs), are becoming poorer. Mohammad Zakaria, ActionAid, Bangladesh, analyses the impact of globalization on LDCs and in particularly on Bangladesh. But the article represent south asia.

26.01.2006 "I heard this evening that the UN are going to launch an emergency appeal for the area on 10 February. If donors donÂ’t respond generously and immediately, what IÂ’m seeing now will pale in comparison with what will come." Brendan Cox reports from Wajir, Kenya.

25.01.2006 A thorough assessment of nutritional levels in Madagascar's drought-stricken southeast has revealed that not as many people as previously thought are suffering from life-threatening malnutrition, according to U.N. agencies, but the situation is still quite "fragile" and the front-line responders remain short on funds.

25.01.2006 In yet another case of midday meals causing food poisoning, 160 students reportedly fell ill in a primary school in Alampur village of Azmargarh block. Fifteen of the children are reported to be in a serious condition.According to reports, the children started vomiting soon after eating the khichdi that was served. The school, in Sagri tehsil of Azamgarh district, has a total of 206 students.

24.01.2006 Tribal disputes are on the increase as KenyaÂ’s drought intensifies, a development agency has warned, with nomadic peoples starting to fight over scarce fertile land in the north-east.

24.01.2006 Some 3.5 million people need food relief as a result of prolonged drought following failed rains, the Kenyan government announced this week.

23.01.2006 The number of severely malnourished children in drought-hit Kenya may have doubled in the last few months, said the UN Children's Fund.

19.01.2006 Over 30 deaths have been reported in Northern Kenya, as drought intensifies. The actual number may be a lot higher.

19.01.2006 The Indo-Sri Lanka Free Trade Agreement signed in 2000 is taking toll on the health of the Indian Vanaspati industry.

17.01.2006 Thousands of lives are being put at risk because of the disintegration of the Kenyan food distribution system, according to a leading international charity.

16.01.2006 [HYDERABAD] Scientists have urged South Asian nations to cooperate to boost their economies by tapping growing global demand for agricultural products such as herbal medicines that are derived from biological resources and traditional knowledge.

13.01.2006 Many areas of Kenya are facing a severe food crisis, following the failure of rains last year, a leading charity warned yesterday.

13.01.2006 The Croatian Food Agency from Osijek informed the public yesterday that it has discovered presence of ITX (isopropyl tioxanton), a chemical considered harmful for human health in two types of juices produced by AustriaÂ’s Pfanner Co. and sold in the Croatian market.

12.01.2006 NEW DELHI: The focus of the 2006-07 budget will be on rural India and the masses with incentives and provisions to keep up the growth momentum witnessed in the current fiscal, Finance Minister P. Chidambaram indicated on Thursday.

12.01.2006 DHAKA, Jan 10 Asia Pulse - Bangladesh Agriculture Minister MK Anwar Thursday underscored the need for improving post-harvest technologies and replicating those up to the field level for giving a boost to export of agro-products.

10.01.2006 Millions of people are on the brink of starvation in the Horn of Africa due to recent severe droughts coupled with the effects of conflict, the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation said in a special alert.

10.01.2006 Increasing food insecurity in Kenya has been reported in the wake of the late arrival of seasonal rains in eastern and northern areas.

10.01.2006 The Congress on Monday urged the Manmohan Singh Government to reconsider the decision to hike issue prices of foodgrains under the public distribution system stating that the move caused hardship to people including those above poverty line.