The COVID-19 crisis has exposed the vulnerability of India's Agri food system and accentuated the need for agricultural market reforms and digital solutions to connect farmers to markets, to create safety nets and ensure reasonable working conditions, and to decentralize Agri food systems to make...

Context: The COVID-19 pandemic has been affecting health and economies across the world, although the nature of direct and indirect effects on Asian agrifood systems and food security has not yet been well understood. Objectives: This paper assesses the initial responses of major farming and food...

Food insecurity has multiple negative effects on maternal and child health and nutritional outcomes. There is a dearth of up-to-date evidence on the prevalence of food insecurity in Bangladesh based on geographical variations. We investigated the prevalence of food insecurity based on geographical...

This paper examines the performance, challenges and the underlying policies in food security in India in terms of availability, accessibility and absorption. Specifically, the paper examines (i) the progress in food supply in terms of availability at the national level; (ii) the progress in terms...

Poor produce quality and inconsistent supply currently impede smallholder vegetable growers in Fiji from accessing high-value domestic markets. The available produce destined to go to the market is further lost through poor postharvest handling practices, road conditions and absence of a cool...

It has been thirty years since the first genetically engineered animal with altered milk composition was reported. During the intervening years, the world population has increased from 5bn to 7bn people. An increasing demand for protein in the human diet has followed this population expansion,...

Over the past few decades, climate change has adversely affected both physical and biological systems in most continents across the globe and lead to decrease in agricultural production by 1-5% per decade. Its effects are also predicted to manifest in severe consequences for the global agricultural ...

Extreme temperature, frequent and intensive flood, cyclone and other natural disasters due to climate change became acute and expecting to be severe in future. In the same time, crop diversification could be an effective adaptation option under this situation as it protects natural biodiversity,...

Indigenous communities across the globe, especially in rural areas, consume locally available plants known as Traditional Food Plants (TFPs) for their nutritional and health-related needs. Recent research shows that many TFPs are highly nutritious as they contain health beneficial metabolites,...

This paper argues that nutritional security has to be considered in totality on a life cycle basis for the household and the community and not for individual groups such as women and children and further that frugal nutritional security for all, without huge resource commitment, is only possible...