Zambia biotech food warning
The United Nations warned that its emergency relief operation in Zambia would come to a halt in two weeks unless the government can overcome its objections to genetically modified (GM) food.
The United Nations warned that its emergency relief operation in Zambia would come to a halt in two weeks unless the government can overcome its objections to genetically modified (GM) food.
With grains stores dwindling, the scourge of HIV/AIDS decimating an already weakened population and farmers fearing another grim harvest, the food crisis in northern Africa has worsened and now
AIDS is having a devastating impact on efforts to counter a severe food shortage threatening nearly 15 million people in southern Africa, a senior UN official said.
Flash floods and landslides killed at least 21 people in central Vietnam this week while another 13, mostly children, drowned in Mekong Delta floods that have left thousands short of food, local
France moved a step closer to lifting its six year old ban on imports of British beef after the country's food and safety agency said renewed imports would not expose French consumers to additional
Earthworms too come at a price nowadays. They are being 'sold alive' for Rs 2000 a kg in many states- not for a culinary delight but to produce organic food! These wriggly creatures can actually eat
Union Agriculture Minister Ajit Singh today said that the Centre had released 9.25 lakh tonnes of foodgrains including two lakh tonnes of rice to Karnataka under food for work programme and would
Albatrosses -the talisman birds of the ocean- spend most of their life skimming the seas in search of food and usually return to land-mainily remote islands in the Antarctic Ocean - only to breed.
The Kerala-based National Farmers' Protection Committee has launched a new movement namely 'Community Enterprise Model' that could help build self-contained socio economic systems ensuring food
AstrZeneca won a surprise and welcome reprieve when a US regulatory advisory panel recommended that its new cancer drug be approved as a last line treatment. The Food and Drug Administration panel
Month-long efforts by the Rajasthan government to procure gains from the Centre for payment to the drought affected people under Food for Work Programme have not met with success so far. The State is
Dr. Reddy's Laboratories Ltd. said on Tuesday that the United States Food and Drug Administration (USFDA) had determined its new drug application (NDA) for Amlodipine Maleate as 'Approvable'.
The Centre is preparing guidelines for facilitating contract farming in the country. Mr. S Dave, Director of Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (Apeda), said Apeda
Southern African leaders urged foreign donors this week to speed up food and debt relief for the region where millions of people face the twin scourges of hunger and AIDS. "We cannot do everything
The Karnataka State Cabinet approved Rs 100 crore under the 'Food-for-work' programme for drought-hit areas, said State Information Minister Kagodu Thimmappa. The release would be monitored by an
Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababau Naidu inaugurated four schemes for the rural poor. Addressing a DWCRA members convention Chief minister declared Velugu Akshaya scheme, a food security
The Punjab Pollution control board has asked all District Food and Supply Controllers in the state not to issue licenses to as many as 170 rice sheller and Saila plants owners who have not installed
Their liking for meat of protected bird Rajhans (Flamingo) has landed two senior Uttar Pradesh food inspector and their friend in serious trouble. Arrest warrants have been issued against them. As
The U.N. World Food Programme (WFP) said that 12,000 tonnes of GM-free maize had begun arriving in Zambia and the agency was seeking another 16,000 tonnes from within southern Africa. Zambia, one of
The popular belief that eating raw sprouts can be beneficial to health has been dismissed by health experts, who warn that eating raw or even lightly cooked sprouts can cause serious food poisoning.