FAO Hails Bugs As An Underutilized Food For People, Livestock And Pets

Rome: The UN has new weapons to fight hunger, boost nutrition and reduce pollution, and they might be crawling or flying near you right now: edible insects. The Food and Agriculture Organization on Monday hailed the likes of grasshoppers, ants and other members of the insect world as an underutilized food for people, livestock and pets.

Nobel laureate upset at disruption of Parliament by Opposition

Nobel laureate Amartya Sen is upset that disruption of Parliament has held up passage of important legislation including the UPA’s flagship National Food Security Bill. He feels that if the Bill is not passed — even if without amendments — several hundred children will go hungry or die from under-nutrition. The Bill has been criticised as “limited” and “targeted” by activists such as Jean Dreze and Kavita Srivastava, who on Monday shared the dais with Prof. Sen to advocate its passage albeit with changes.

The Pakistan Kissan Trust (PKT) has raised alarm about the severe food security in four districts of South Punjab, warning that 80.41 percent people of these district take meal only twice a day.

IMPHAL: Manipur was one of the eight States rewarded for significant agricultural productions. President Pranab Kumar Mukherjee handed over to Chief Minister Okram Ibobi a cash of Rs 2 crore, one citation and one certificate in a solemn function held today at Rashtrapati Bhavan.

From among the small State category Manipur and Nagaland have been selected. Officials did not furnish details of the reported glut production in agriculture in Manipur. Because Manipur has been importing even ubiquitous items like rice, flour and all other food items from other States in general and Assam in particular.

Bhubaneswar: Shedding its image of abject poverty, starvation and child selling, Odisha in recent years has embraced growth and prosperity by adopting certain fiscal corrective measures and attracting huge private capital, said speakers at the ‘Resurgent Odisha’ seminar organized by The Times of India in Bhubaneswar on Friday.

CM Naveen Patnaik and experts from different fields said that the state had become a favourable destination for investors, both from within and outside India, and had the potential to become a gateway to Jharkhand, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh.

Hunger and malnutrition are critical issues in the country and therefore, Delhi FoodBank, started in 2012 and run by the Aidmatrix Foundation, created a Food Bank to address the problem and reach o

Social Distribution, Not Lack Of Food, Cause Of Hunger: UN

New Delhi: India ranks 65th out of 79 countries on the Global Hunger Index, a new report by the International Food Policy Research Institute, Welthungerhilfe and Concern Worldwide has said.

The United Nations says its 2009 announcement that 1 billion people in the world were hungry was off-target and that the number is actually 870 million.