It will take at least 10 years to eradicate the H5N1 bird flu virus, which has killed scores of humans, from poultry in the six countries where it is endemic, a UN agency said on April 21.

Smokeless tobacco products being marketed in India contain 3095 chemical components with serious implications for human health.

There have been or at least expectations of a real bumper crop in the country this year (July 2010-June 2011). One feels this is the time for structural change in the food distribution system in the country, with a structural change in the distribution of food grains to the needy.

Says the poor in countries that depend on imports are particularly vulnerable.

The unbridled manufacture and use of pesticides in Asia is raising the spectre of "pest storms" devastating the region's rice farms and threatening food security, scientists have warned.
Increased production of cheap pesticides in China and India, lax regulation and inadequate farmer education are destroying ecosystems around paddies, allowing pests to thrive and multiply, they said.

The probl

Countries in Latin America and Africa, including Bolivia and Mozambique, are most at risk of food riots as prices advance, the United Nations said.

The past month

BEIJING: China on Tuesday said a record drought across its major wheat-producing provinces would not impact global food prices, with the country expected to meet its demand from

Beijing: The Food and Agriculture Organization's (FAO) diagnosis of China's wheat crisis differs from the one presented by the Chinese government.

There is bad news on the global food front. In an alert issued this week, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) warned that more than two-thirds of China

According to WEF's analysis, climate change is the highest-ranking risk the world will face in the coming years

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