-The Statesman Koraput district is ahead of several others in meeting the UN Sustainable Development Goal, said May East, Scotland UN fellow, while addressing the Grow Your Own Food congress organised by Thread Siddharth village and Odisha Narisamaj at Kakirigumma here. This congress and Asian Ecovillage summit has been organised under the global discussions on how to implement these goals regionally and the discussion is also based on practical work conducted by...

-Down to Earth From providing agricultural information for specific countries to identifying trends in the sector, censuses serve a variety of purpose In the backdrop of a round of country-driven agricultural censuses which will begin in 2016 to gather information and statistics on the global agriculture sector, senior FAO statiscian Jairo Castano discusses with Down To Earth the importance of the exercise. * How helpful are agricultural censuses in gathering information and statistics...

-PTI NEW DELHI: A Parliamentary panel on agriculture has sought views from stakeholders and experts on the need to focus on comprehensive farm research and study the impact of climate change to ensure food security in the country.  The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Agriculture, chaired by Madhubani MP Hukm Deo Narayan Yadav, is examining the subject 'Comprehensive agriculture research-based on geographical condition and impact of climate changes to ensure food security in...

-The Independent The world is halfway towards the threshold that could result in dangerous climate change, scientists have warned, after revealing that average global temperatures have recorded a rise of one degree Celsius for the first time. Record warm temperatures measured in the first nine months of this year mean that the world has already reached the halfway point towards the arbitrary "threshold" of a 2C increase on pre-industrial levels judged to...

-Economic and Political Weekly The platform known as the JAM Trinity (an acronym for Jan Dhan Yojana, Aadhaar and mobile numbers) may enable a shift from the current Public Distribution System, based on price subsidies, to the direct transfer of benefits. However, it is incorrect to argue that JAM technologies will necessarily lead to the demise of the PDS. State-level experiences of computerisation, recounted here, reveal that the same technologies can...