Food waste index report 2024
<p>The world wasted an estimated 19 per cent of the food produced globally in 2022, or about 1.05 billion metric tons, according to this new report by the UNEP.</p>
<p>The world wasted an estimated 19 per cent of the food produced globally in 2022, or about 1.05 billion metric tons, according to this new report by the UNEP.</p>
Tamil Nadu Foodgrains Merchants Association has said that the Food Safety and Standards (FSS) Act 2006, which is being implemented since August 5, will hurt small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the Indian food industry.
Alleging acute scarcity of fertlizers across the state owing to state government's faulty policies, Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) on Monday demanded putting effective check on blackmarketeering of Urea in several
EGoM nod expected shortly for new food storage policy with thrust on public-pvt partnership The government is ready with a blueprint to build grain silos through public-private partnerships to meet the
Tamil Nadu Chamber of Commerce and Industry has urged Union Minister for Agriculture and Food Processing Industries Sharad Pawar to take steps to delay the implementation of the Food Safety and Standards Act (FSSA) by three years. A chamber delegation comprising senior president S. Rethinavelu, president N. Jegatheesan and other office-bearers met the Nationalist Congress Party leader in New Delhi on Monday and presented a memorandum containing various demands.
In the midst of a dire need to feed millions of people facing hunger because of drought, Kenya's newly passed Biosafety Act allows for the importation of GM crops - but at what cost? As the most severe
Greenpeace activists, with assistance from chefs of Le Meridien and students of the International Institute of Hotel Management, today prepared 342.5 kg of organic baingan bharta (eggplant dish), the largest
The Delhi government's scheme replacing the public distribution system with cash transfers is a "total fraud" as the poor would not benefit from receiving a fixed sum when the prices of essential items
A survey conducted across nine states by the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi and Allahabad University suggests that the much maligned system has revived, prodded by politics, good governance and
“Bt. Brinjal, the first GM crop that came up for commercialisation, was put under an indefinite moratorium last year due to opposition by scientists, farmers, consumers, political parties, as well as environmentalists. Brinjal has thus become a national symbol when it comes to opposition to GM crops and this event only resonates that cause,'' he added.
Eminent city scientists on Tuesday made a plea to the Prime Minister to lift the moratorium on commercial production of Bt Brinjal and called it absolutely safe for human consumption. Scientists were