Indian cuisine, celebrated for its wide array of flavours, finds itself heavily dependent on the indispensable tomato. However, in recent days, this culinary essential has been banished from homes and restaurant menus across the country.

Has it shaken your kitchen too? Making sense of India's climate-driven tomato crisis

After a successful NASA study examining the possibility of providing fresh food for future astronauts, tomatoes grown on the International Space Station (ISS) will return to Earth over the weekend.

Tomatoes grown, harvested in space to return to Earth

Across northern and western Europe, vegetable producers are halting their activities and this is due to the financial hit that they have taken from Europe's energy crisis which is further threatening food supplies.

Europe: Vegetable farmers halt production in Northern and Western parts