India will present its case on its new food security legislation at the 40th ministerial conference of the Food and Agriculture Organisation in Rome next week.

Some WTO member-countries had questioned whether India’s stockholding to support 67 per cent of its population with subsidised food grains will distort international trade and impact the world stocks of grains.

A new climate change mitigation project to promote sustainable biomass energy production and modern bio-energy technologies in Sri Lanka commenced with an inception workshop on September 17, 2013.

The world wastes 1.3 billion tons of food annually—a third of all the food that’s produced—according to a report published last week by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).

Rome : The food the world wastes accounts for more greenhouse gas emissions than any country except for China and the United States, the United Nations said in a report on Wednesday.

Experts are sounding a new alarm about the effects of climate change for parts of the Caribbean - the depletion of already strained drinking water throughout much of the region.

Rising sea levels could contaminate supplies of fresh water and changing climate patterns could result in less rain to supply reservoirs in the coming decades, scientists and officials warned at a conference in St. Lucia this week.

There has been a 70 per cent decline in the catch of large-sized shrimp over the past four decades while the landing of colossal-sized shrimp has reduced to almost zero, says a recent report which

The state-run Soil Resource Development Institute (SRDI) has claimed that there has been about 30.6 per cent fall in the tea cultivation area in the country over the last ten years.

As Madhya Pradesh takes lead in the country in terms of agriculture growth rate at an impressive 14%, the state would do well to address the problem of fake pesticides, scientists, policy makers an

The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations will provide financial assistance for two major agriculture projects in Sri Lanka.

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) published Tuesday new guidelines on reducing emission of agricultural greenhouse gas to help tackle causes of global warming.