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Climate set to worsen food crisis: Oxfam

In 2010, a heatwave in Russia and Ukraine sparked a rise of 60 to 80% cent in global wheat prices.

North Korea heads for new food crisis: UN

UN says North needs 3.5 million tons of cereals a year to feed its population.

`Mozambique must tackle broad food crisis`

Graca Machel says she will press Mozambique govt to improve food production.

Scientists crack through wheat`s genetic code

It may help making more robust and plentiful crop breeds to meet the threat of global food shortages...

`India can be agricultural superpower`

India can become an agricultural superpower and the proposed food security bill is coming at the rig...

Pranab blames inefficient farm market for food price spike

As the prices of food items soar, the government on Monday said that the farm market is imperfect as...

UN chief to link food, global warming at FAO summit

UN chief Ban Ki-moon will prod world leaders to step up the fight against global warming and hunger ...

UN food agency says 200 million more people hungry

Most of the developing world is paying more for food despite drops in commodity market prices during...

Rice production may slump by 16 million tonnes this season: FM

Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee has apprehended that rice production this year could be 16 million...

Serious food crisis stares flood-hit Andhra Pradesh

A grave food crisis stares Andhra Pradesh -- known as the country`s rice bowl -- as its farmers su...

Food Crisis – disaster in the making

Peter Carey once wrote a story situated in a nameless dystopia apparently far in the future where gr...

Food-starved Guatemala declares public calamity

Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom declared "a state of public calamity" late Tuesday to help mobiliz...

Why India is paying heavily for food

The concluding years of this decade will be remembered in history as those of suffering and awakenin...

Govt may sell 10 lakh tonnes of wheat in open market

The government is likely to offload 10 lakh tonnes of wheat in the open market from its buffer stock...

Enough food stocks to feed poor: PM

The country has sufficient food grain stocks to feed the Public Distribution System that will ensure...

Pawar mislead on availability of sugar: Satyavrat Chaturvedi

Senior Congress leader Satyavrat Chaturvedi on Wednesday accused Union Agriculture Minister Sharad ...

No fears of food crisis in India: Kamal Nath

India has enough foodgrain reserves to tackle even the worst monsoon situation, Nath said.

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