Water crisis: Half of global food production at risk

The water crisis could jeopardise more than half of the world's food production and cause an average global GDP loss of 8 per cent by 2050, with lower-income countries facing up to a 15 per cent......

Ozone pollution poses major threat to India's staple foods

Ozone pollution, a lesser-known but potent threat, could drastically reduce agricultural yields in the country, according to a new study by IIT-Kharagpur. IMAGE: Labourers drying the paddy crops......

'Indian Youth Can Expect Career Growth In Russia'

'Don't look at Russia only as a place to earn quickly and then leave.''Try to build experience in serious companies, skills and certifications that will serve you anywhere in the world.' IMAGE:......

Will secure, advance national interest: Goyal on Trump tariffs

India will take all necessary steps to safeguard and promote national interest, Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal said on Thursday, a day after US President Donald Trump announced 25 per......

20 most food-secure countries in the world

While the world, on balance, is richer and better fed than it was 50 years ago, those gains are now under threat.  Global food prices rose twice as fast as inflation in the last decade,......

Food security should not distort global agri market: EU

Amid India's hard posture that the food security issue is ‘non-negotiable’, the European Union on Wednesday said that every human has the right to food security but the programme should......

How to counter global food scarcity

Wheat prices have climbed to record highs around the world, as stocks have ebbed to their lowest levels in a quarter century. The result is that global food security is in jeopardy. The situation......

BRIC agri ministers to talk on food security

Ways to pool efforts to ensure global food security would be discussed at the first-ever meeting of agriculture ministers of the dynamically growing grouping of Brazil, Russia, India and China in......