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About 1.6 million people worldwide fall ill every day from eating contaminated food, which kills 4,20,000 people each year, said the United Nations as the world observed the World Food Safety DayJune 7.

With hunger spreading worldwide and tobacco responsible for eight million deaths each year, countries should stop subsidizing tobacco crops and help farmers grow food, the World Health Organization (WHO) said.

Around seven-in-ten of all Asian restaurants in the United States serve Chinese, Japanese and Thai foods. However, restaurants serving other types of Asian food are less widely distributed.

The number of people experiencing acute food insecurity and requiring urgent food, nutrition, and livelihood assistance increased for the fourth consecutive year in 2022, according to the latest Global Report on Food Crises (GRFC). The report said that over a quarter of a billion people face acute hunger, and people in seven countries are on the brink of starvation.

Empowering women and ensuring gender equality in agrifood systems reduces hunger, boosts the economy, and reinforces resilience to shocks like climate change and COVID-19 pandemic, according to new report by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).

Older people face the worst challenges with global food, fuel and finance crisis having a devastating impact across the world. The older...

Almost half of the world’s population live in households linked to agrifood systems,with the largest population found in Asia, according to a...

Despite the Black Sea Grain Initiative helped to bring down the cost of food, stabilize global markets and keep them open, the...

Whatever food it is, majority of older Americans show an unhealthy relationship with them, according to a new poll.

With 55 percent of the Asia- Pacific region’s enormous population expected to live in urban areas by 2030, the region will face...