Food security

India's recently rolled out national food security welfare programme will cost the government 1.4 trillion rupees ($21.00 billion) a year, food minister Ram Vilas Paswan said on Thursday.

Food security was another area which was discussed at length at the delegation level talks between PM Modi and Al Nahyan.

The West African Ebola epidemic and its impact on food security will be a topic of discussion as officials from African nations and other international dignitaries gather for the annual World Food Prize award ceremony ...

The Centre on Thursday said that the entire country has now come under the National Food Security Act sway as Kerala and Tamil Nadu too have come on board.

China's path to food security is taking a big swing to the south. In fact, 5,300 miles down to Tasmania, the dairy-hungry nation's newest source of fresh milk.

Be it a rag picker, a rickshaw puller, a labourer or a housemaid or for that matter anyone earning less that Rs.100,000 a year - all stand to gain from the ambitious National Food Security ...

24 states and UTs have been asked to roll out food security law by September this year.

With the world's population expected to exceed 9 billion people by the year 2050, producing enough food for everyone is a top concern for global policymakers.

To educate industry stakeholders and farmers about millet crops, experts highlighted importance of the crop with regard to nutrition and other aspects.

Record harvests and falling oil prices have helped to push food prices to a four-year low, improving the affordability of food in nearly three quarters of countries surveyed.