Prasenjit Chowdhury

With nearly a fourth of its 1.1 billion popu-lation hungry, India indeed is the world

Water shortages present the greatest future threat to the viability of Pakistan as a state and a society, warns a new book on Pakistan.

Author Michael Kugelman argues that

The Food and Agriculture Organi-sation (FAO) of the United Nations has put Bangladesh on a list of 31 countries that are in substantial need of food assistance in 2009.

Most of the food-insecure least developed countries (LDCs) are in Africa, while five are in Asia, and one is Caribbean.

Britain must find ways to grow more food while using less water, energy and fertilizers to help feed a growing world population and offset the effects of climate change on agriculture, the government said on Monday.

A senior minister said last year's sharp rise in the cost of food and oil and a severe drought in Australia showed the urgent need to develop a food security plan.

In the backdrop of global and regional soaring food prices, the government on Friday signed with European Union (EU) worth 40 million euro (Rs 4.5 billion) project to combat rising food prices in Pakistan.

Government is actively contemplating to strengthen the Integreted Paste Management (IPM) program aiming to impose control on the indiscriminate use of pesticides and chemicals at different stages of food chain, Food and Disaster management Minister, Dr Md Abdur Razzak said on Sunday.

Surinder Sud / New Delhi July 27, 2009, 0:18 IST

A United Nations agency has cautioned that the population of hungry people in the world will reach an all-time high in 2009, largely because of the ongoing global economic crisis.

United Nations Thursday mentioned to heavy losses to agriculture and crops following the operation in troubled areas of North West Frontier Province, to flush out extremists.

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