Food Crisis
AI on the farm: Sickle Innovations and Dayatani Digital win awards for using AI in agriculture and food security
By 2030, agriculture in India could contribute $600 billion to GDP, driven by AI solutions. Sickle Innovations and Dayatani Digital were recognised for their AI-led advancements in grading and agronomy, improving efficiency, profitability, and farmer support.
4 min read10 Dec 2025From campus canteens to city streets: Is modern India reinforcing caste divides?
Food segregation at India's elite institutions of higher education, like the IITs, is a worrying sign of rising anti-modernism and intolerance. Ambedkar and Gandhi, for all their differences on urbanization, would both have been appalled.
4 min read17 Sep 2025Jagdambika Pal: Minimize food loss and waste for the sake of our planet and its people
It will enhance food security and reduce greenhouse gas emissions that threaten our collective future. Decaying food releases methane that's far more potent than carbon dioxide. India is moving to address this crisis and so should others.
3 min read5 Jun 2025Anarchy in Sudan has spawned the world's worst famine in 40 years
Millions are likely to perish
7 min read3 Nov 2024South Sudan's economic crisis is so bad it's taxing its only lifeline
The world's youngest country is facing an economic crisis so acute it has imposed levies on international aid trucks and U.N. peacekeepers stationed in the country.
5 min read8 Oct 2024Haitian gang kills at least 70 people as thousands flee, UN says
HAITI-VIOLENCE/ (UPDATE 4, PIX):UPDATE 4-Haitian gang kills at least 70 people as thousands flee, UN says
4 min read5 Oct 2024It Just Had an Energy Crisis, Now Europe Faces a Food Shock
Food prices continue to rise at a rapid pace, surprising central banks and pressuring debt-laden governments
4 min read24 May 2023World food prices rise for first time in a year; sugar index surges 17.6% from March
The sugar price index surged 17.6 per cent from March, hitting its highest level since October 2011. FAO said the rise was linked to concerns of tighter supplies following downward revisions to production forecasts for India and China.
1 min read5 May 2023Egyptians Struggle to Afford Food This Ramadan as Crisis Worsens
President Sisi comes under growing pressure as inflation nears record highs
4 min read19 Apr 2023India defends MSP at WTO
India argued at the WTO's Committee on Agriculture that it does not export common paddy which it procures under the MSP programme.
2 min read10 Apr 2023