North Koreans are dying at a rate that is more than 40 per cent higher than in 1994 when a series of devastating floods and famines hit the country, said Gro Harlem Brundt

The recently launched food for work programme may not ensure local food security

Child starvation could increase unless research is improved

Newspapers come replete with news of starvation deaths while stocks go waste in government storage houses. Food scarcity in India is a more a human-made problem that one brought upon by nature's

The recent starvation deaths in Orissa have thrown up a more fundamental question that of local food security.

The Supreme Court has directed six drought-prone states to reopen closed public distribution shops. The court's directive was given in response to a lawsuit filed by the People's Union for Civil

The death of traditional water harvesting structures prepare Kalahandi for its worst ever drought

Simple, yet effective, rainwater harvesting structures provided succour in the face of drought

A village that has kept its date with history

What led to the decline of tanks

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