Full Coverage: Food

26.07.2007 The Green Revolution has been a useful response to food insecurity at a certain point in India's history. But the strategy cannot be a permanent one for a country like India. The fact is that intensive agriculture could happen only with high a level of irrigation, with diversity of ecology, rainfall and water table on which India is lacking.

20.07.2007 Food supply could stretch tight for low-income food-deficit countries, says FAOÂ’s latest report. After a relatively strong growth for four years in a row, production of cereals is predicted to go slow.

20.07.2007 Recently, United Nations Development Programme, (UNDP) launched this years human development report for Zambia in Lusaka. The occasion, which was graced by the presence of the country's vice president, Nevers Mumba was rather sobering. There was just nothing to celebrate. Zambia finds itself in the unenviable 164th position in the world on social and economic performance.

04.07.2007 ActionAid has launched a new five year campaign to end hunger, starting with a call to governments to deliver on their existing commitment to halve hunger by 2015. This is an urgent response to the reality that the number of people going hungry are going up drastically.