Rice and wheat fetch a secure price and subsidies on farm inputs. Coarse grains have no place in the public distribution system, although their value in the international market is rising

India s public distribution system promotes rice and wheat. These water intensive crops require more inputs and are less nutritious as compared to grains like millets that have sustained India for millennia. These blind policies are preparing the countr

Bangladesh government recently

An estimated $10 28 billion is frittered away due to lost productivity, illness and death

Armed conflict and civil strife were major sources of food insecurity in the 1990s and will continue to be this century, although their number and the losses associated with them may have passed their peak.

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has called upon various governments to closely work with the Convention to Combat Desertification, a body fighting for reversal of dryland

Environmental pollution could be responsible for 40 per cent of all deaths world wide

Food shortages and advanced malnutrition have taken their toll in Sudan, the African nation where famine is nothing new. International aid agencies have estimated that so far 1.5 million people have

The true Bharat Ratnas will be those individuals who will get India s millions clean water, clean air and adequate food

Cancer and air pollution go hand in hand in eastern Europe, where an ecological nightmare is still unfolding

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