-One World South Asia South Asia’s households fall into poverty as the result of higher food pRices as food pRices increase. According to the latest Food PRice Watch, global food pRices increased 10% between June and July 2012 with staples such as wheat increasing 25% in the period. The crisis continued affecting food and nutrition security throughout South Asia. Bad weather, trade curbs, oil pRices and bio-fuel diversions have all led to...

-The Hindu A recent survey in the Sunderbans region of West Bengal reveals an alarming trend of rising mental health problem among women Everyday, when Badal, a sturdy young man of Sunderbans returns home at dusk, he finds his mother, Kamala, sitting placidly in the verandah, staring into the distance with strangely unseeing eyes. The house, otherwise, is abuzz with activity. His daughter is bringing in the cows, his sons are clamouring...

-The Hindustan Times The smog that nearly choked Delhi in November was caused due to the burning of post-harvest Rice stalks in Punjab, Haryana, and western Uttar Pradesh. Every year, Rice is harvested using combine harvesters, which leaves a residue in the field. Earlier, harvesting was done by hand and the people who worked on the fields would take out the stalks and use them as food for animals. This practice is...

-The Economic Times It has never happened since Independence. May be not even in the last 1,000 years what happened during October 2011-September 2012. India exported 10 million tonnes of Rice, valued at around $6 billion, becoming the largest exporter of Rice, replacing Thailand and Vietnam, generally the two largest exporters of Rice. This is now known to many in Rice circles. But what is little known is that in 2011-12, India also emerged...

-The Times of India Stocking up of foodgrains by the government could be one of the major factors for the continuing surge in food pRices, warn experts. Latest wholesale pRice data available on the industry department's website shows that wheat pRices are up almost 20% in October compared to a year ago. That's at a time when the government is holding stocks of 42 million tonnes — three times the buffer stock...