Asia
Maintaining Food Security, Indonesia’s Agriculture Minister Focuses on Four Targets
Indonesia's Agriculture Minister recently spoke about four key targets to promote self-sufficiency and food security in the country....
Drought raises food security fears in Afghanistan
A shortage of precipitation during the winter months, both rain and snow, left much of Afghanistan with a severe scarcity of water and a decimated winter h...
Food and Nutrition Security in Timor-Leste: Challenges and Prospects
Recent graduate Caleb Gorton outlines the hunger and nutrition issues affecting Timor-Leste, which has one of the highest rates of malnutrition in the world, with 46 per cent of children under five suffering from chronic malnutrition....
A step towards hunger-free India
Millions of people in our country sleep hungry every single day, making it one of the major issues to tackle with, but we still waste food worth crores everyday. With an aim to put an end to food-wastage and ward off the evil of hunger among the poor...
Red Cross warns of food crisis in N. Korea as crops fail in heat
A heat wave in North Korea has led to rice, maize and other crops withering in the fields, "with potentially catastrophic effects," the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies said on Friday. The world's largest disaster r...
China’s food security threatened by drastic drop in crop varieties
Over 70 percent of food crop varieties has disappeared in six regions in China, including Central China's Hubei and Hunan provinces, which agricultural experts fear may threaten China's food security. The native food crop varieties in 375 countie...
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