-The Hindu Business Line Helps combat malnutrition and climate change The global food system faces major challenges and trends related to rapid urbanisation, changing diets, climate change, political uncertainties, and anti-globalisation sentiments. At the same time, there has been growing recognition that, in addition to addressing multiple burdens of malnutrition, there is an increasing need to seek an environmentally sustainable food system in light of climate change. The new EAT-Lancet report on healthy...

-The Indian Express Mushrif said that his mill, like many others, had no other option. The Sugar Commissioner of Maharashtra, Shekhar Gaikwad, had issued orders on January 29 for the attachment of properties of 39 mills across the state for non-payment of FRP to farmers. Pune: With payment arrears to cane growers during the current crushing season that started last October at over Rs 4,800 crore already, cash-strapped Sugar mills in...

-The Times of India Mills in Maharashtra and UP, the two states that account for most of India's Sugar supply, owe Sugarcane farmers Rs 12,700 cr. Yet, farmers do not want to move away from the crop KOLHAPUR/ MEERUT: Unrest simmers in districts of western Maharashtra and parts of Uttar Pradesh, considered the Sugar bowls of the country, over unpaid cane crushing dues. Despite the problems which beset farmers, however, they have...

-The Hindu India’s public health system can no longer function within the shadows of its health services system In India, public health and health services have been synonymous. This integration has dwarfed the growth of a comprehensive public health system, which is critical to overcome some of the systemic challenges in healthcare. A stark increase in population growth, along with rising life expectancy, provides the burden of chronic diseases. Tackling this requires an...

-The Telegraph The world can move towards meaningful health only when dietary interventions and models are made more representative The way to the heart is, apparently, through the stomach. Would that, then, mean that food habits all over the world have to change, given that cardiovascular diseases — the result of an unhealthy diet — are a leading cause of death around the globe? The findings of a report compiled by a...