Nilutpal Thakur
Climate change, extreme weather and food security
In our last editorial, we referred to the International Food Policy Research Institute’s Global Food Policy 2022 report, which estimates that climate change could escalate the hunger issue among Indians by 2030. Climate change...
Operation flood 2.0 – the new revolution in milk packaging
In the 1970s, the white revolution, or operation flood as it was popularly known, transformed India from a milk-deficient nation to the world’s largest milk producer – 198.4 million tonnes in 2020 as per...
Food crises may increase without systemic change: FAO
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has warned that the world’s ability to nourish its burgeoning population is under threat and sustainable agrifood systems will be impossible to achieve without...
Cautious optimism as economy slowly comes back on track
First the grim part – at least on the face of it. Government data released on 30 November 2022 shows that the Indian economy grew by 6.3% in the July-September quarter of 2022. This...
GM mustard cleared for environmental release, field trials
In the last week of October, the Indian government’s Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee (GEAC) ordered the environmental release of the GM (genetically modified) mustard—the Dhara Mustard Hybrid-11 (DMH-11), 20 years after the controversial Bt...