Gavin Wall

From equity and livelihood perspectives, livestock rearing must be at the centre stage of poverty alleviation programmes.

M.S. Swaminathan

DEVELOPING countries, including India, Brazil, China and Mexico, have called for exclusion of small and marginal fishermen from the multilateral curbs on fisheries subsidies under the World Trade Organisation (WTO).

Pallavi Aiyar / Brussels February 19, 2010, 0:15 IST

At the United Nations climate change meet in Copenhagen last December, some of the most visible NGO campaigners milling around outside the conference venue were dressed as large, furry animals. As they distributed vegan sandwiches to all who would accept them, their message was simple:

CHENNAI: For every one degree rise in temperature, 6 million tonnes of wheat will be lost in India, the Food and Agricultural Organisation of the UN estimates. How do you feed a hungry, growing world population with climate change knocking at the door?

Madhura Swaminathan

The poverty line that the Tendulkar Committee proposes depends on reduced calorie consumption, and fails to provide for reasonable household expenditures on schooling and health.

ISLAMABAD, Jan 27: The National Assembly standing committee on Food and Agriculture has proposed some amendments to the Agriculture Pesticides Bill, 2009 in the light of certain revision in specification of pesticides by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO).

The committee, which met in Islamabad on Wednesday with MNA Javed Iqbal Warraich in the

Bloomberg SINGAPORE

RICE is the only crop in Asia at risk of potential damage from El Nino as the weather phenomenon, which reduces rainfall, weakens and may spare coffee, palm oil, rubber and sugarcane output, an agricultural meteorologist said.