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>
New Delhi The final draft of the proposed food security Bill approved by the finance and food ministries has a provision for creation of a national food security commission for implementation of the mega scheme that aims at providing subsidised grains to close to two-third of the country
<p> The grievance redressal mechanism proposed in the draft food security bill could be used for lodging complaints and also monitoring of schemes of similar nature both run by the Centre or the state. The draft bill proposes creation of a multi-layer grievance redressal mechanism comprising of a district grievance redressal officer, followed by the State Food Security Commission and National Food</p>
<p>Andhra farmers shun growing paddy this kharif in absence of buyers, storage space. Analysts say this perhaps the first time in the countyr that paddy farmers have resorted to such a drastic step, that too in a green revolution belt.</p>
New Delhi In order to avoid imports of grain for implementing the proposed food security Bill in years when monsoon fails, the government will include a provision in the Bill to allow beneficiaries to get cash instead of grain. According to sources, the requirement of grain for the proposed food security cover would be 60 million tonne (mt), which is less than a third of the total production.
Bill may be moved in monsoon session after consultation with states The empowered group of ministers on food on Monday approved the draft National Food Security Bill, bringing the ambitious social security programme that guarantees highly subsidized foodgrains to about 70% of the population a step closer to fruition. The EGoM cleared the draft bill, prepared by the food ministry, without ch
Will entitle 75% of rural homes and half of urban ones to subsidised grain; NAC recommendations diluted. Diluting some recommendations of the Sonia Gandhi-led National Advisory Council (NAC), an empowered group of ministers (eGoM) today cleared the draft Food Security Bill, which has proposed a legal entitlement for subsidised grain to 75 per cent of rural households and 50 per cent of urban ho
<p> The Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM) on Food on Monday cleared the crucial Food Security Bill, which seeks to entitle 75 per cent of the BPL (below poverty line) population and 50 per cent of the urban population to heavily subsidised food grains.</p>
<p>There is a view that we are now in the midst of the emergence of a new world food regime, characterised by three important and interrelated features – the rise of large corporate food empires with oligopolistic powers over entire food supply chains, the growing dominance of cash crops at the expense of food agriculture and the closer alignment of domestic market prices with internati
New Delhi: Congress President Sonia Gandhi has formally sent the proposed National Food Security bill to the government on behalf of the National Advisory Council (NAC) that she chairs.
A workshop of Non-Government Organisations (NGOs) on UID Number of Food Coupon Scheme was held at the auditorium of Academy of Administration on Monday.