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    High Risk of Famine Across Gaza: FAO Sounds Alarm

    The new data reveals that while the increased amount of food deliveries and nutrition services provided to the northern governorates have temporarily alleviated hunger conditions, the...
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    Moody’s Predicts Harsh Years Ahead as Climate Change Exacerbates Water Stress

    Saying that water shortages will reflect in paucity of water for irrigation, the report says both, agriculture and industry will be impacted by the...
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    New Report Highlights Urgent Need for Climate-Resilient Strategies for Marginal Farmers

    The report reveals that over 60 per cent of marginal farmers have faced significant crop losses due to extreme weather events in the past...
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    Latin American Trial Heralds Methane-Free Rice

    Rice cultivation normally leads to high water consumption and methane emissions. But now, an experimental technique in Colombia promises significant improvements. 70 million people...
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    The Story of Basmati: A Story for Our Times, Going Two Centuries Back

    Miraculously, the Doon Basmati has not disappeared even though the Doon Valley has set its back on it. And the credit for reviving it,...
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    NDDB to Execute Upgradation of Biocontainment Facility

    NDDB has executed projects of several bio-containment labs and associated infrastructure in livestock health sector across the country in recent years. Department of animal husbandry...
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    Agriculture

    PM Releases Seventeenth PM-KISAN Instalment of Rs. 20,000 Crores

    The prime minister lauded the use of technology in taking the benefits to the deserved beneficiaries and also credited the Viksit Bharat Sankalp Yatra...
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    Volunteers go the Distance to Bring Water and Health to Remote Nepali Mountain Villages

    Aligned with the government’s “Ek dhara, ek ghar” campaign — which translates to “one house, one tap” — the Nepal Red Cross, IFRC, British...
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    Pakistan: Activists Demand Probe Into Alleged Demolition of Century-old Hindu Temple in Punjab

    Rights groups continue to press for transparent investigations, reconstruction where warranted, and stronger safeguards so that historic places of worship are not erased regardless of the current demographic composition of surrounding communities.
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    Simultaneous Global Droughts Could Triple Wheat Prices Under 3°C Warming

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