The government yesterday introduced the country's first comprehensive National Food Policy Plan of Action targeting to ensure food security for all by 2015.

Under the plan of action the Government will have to increase food supply by 2015 to ensure food security for some 40 per cent of the population, who suffer for nutrition at present.

Rs 3/kg Grain May Not Be Boon To All
Prabha Jagannathan NEW DELHI

Only a short time ago, African farmland seemed of little interest to outsiders. But last year's food crisis and water scarcity in many countries has changed foreigners' appetite with the result being that fertile soil in Africa is now sought by international investors to the tune of hundreds of thousands of hectares.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called for a "green new deal" on climate change on Thursday and urged for a final push in negotiations ahead of a key summit to be held in Copenhagen in December.

The United Nations issued a range of rival ideas for fighting climate change from rich and poor nations on Wednesday and said the world was "not standing still" in work on a new U.N. treaty.

Gargi Parsai

NEW DELHI: The Congress

The five-day World Ocean Conference has ended in Indonesia's Sulawesi Island with a focus on the state of the oceans, the role they play in the world's changing climate and the negative effects of climate change on the world's oceans.

The world's poorest nations are not prepared for the strain climate change will put on their public health systems, according to studies by the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) and partners.