World migration report 2024
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) launched the World Migration Report 2024, which reveals significant shifts in global migration patterns, including a record number of displaced people
Food Security
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The net is cast on agriculture
Aquaculture on the rise
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India's strategies for rice congress
India will host the second International Rice Congress from October 9-13 in New Delhi. This is the most important event in the calendar of rice research since the International Year of Rice in 2004.
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Zimbabwe orders troops to oversee crop collection
The Zimbabwean government has deployed soldiers to seize grain harvests from farmers. The "massive grain collection exercise' is to ensure food security, as the country falls 1.8 million tonnes short
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Monsoon friendly Assam reeling under drought
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Inter-linking of rivers - A necessity for food security in India
The present Union Government designates its programme as economic reforms with a human face. Harnessing technology and investing huge resources to meet the needs of the vulnerable segment represent this sentiment. The honourable judges of the Supreme Court had directed the Government of India that inter-linking of the major rivers in the country may be expedited by the year 2020.
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Fissures in West Bengal's Left government over land acquisition
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Structural shift in demand for food: projections for 2020
Knowledge of demand structure and consumer behaviour is essential for a wide range of development policy questions like improvement in nutritional status, food subsidy,sectoral and macroeconomic policy analysis, etc.
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In Court
spilling on oysters: The Far North District Council of New Zealand said it will spend US $3.6 million to reduce the risk of sewage spills in the environmentally sensitive areas of Paihia, Haruru
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Wheat and chaff
Grain import policy quixotic, lacks logic
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Chinese aggro
India lagging behind due to bad practices