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Biodiversity is the key to preserving food culture, mitigating the impacts of climate change and ensuring future food security. But our window to act is slipping away.
Editor's note: India is a land of diversity. It has always been, for thousands of years. The culture, traditions, language and food change from one region to the next, sometimes in just a few kilometres. This diversity has defined India over centuries and helped it overcome external and internal threats and stand tall amid adversity. And it is this diversity that is under threat today, but I digress. Nowhere is this diversity more pronounced than in the food habits across different regions. And once we move beyond the culinary misadventures of the big cities, we realize how essential this diversity on the plate is to people in the countryside and how integral it has been to their sense of identity and well-being over centuries. But modern agricultural practices are taking us away from food diversity, a trend that has worsened in the last five or six decades. We are witnessing a sharp decline in the number of crops and crop varieties grown commercially. According to a report by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), “The last two centuries have seen an alarming …
A series of new investments earmarked for India, good and bad news from Saudi Arabia and AI deals at Davos, among other updates.
Hyderabad-based CCL Products has helped most Indian coffee startups find their feet by supplying instant coffee to them. Can it do the same for itself?
The packaged coffee startup came close to running out of money in 2023. A timely course correction and its founders’ doggedness helped pull the company back from the brink.
