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>
The empowered group of ministers (EGoM) expected to meet on Monday is expected to take a view on an agriculture ministry proposal to export wheat and rice. The proposal is not backed by the food ministry, which wants to take into consideration the interest of consumers, and its own compulsions under the proposed food security bill, before moving on exports under an open general licence.
Madhya Pradesh is the only State in the country, which has linked MGNREGA, Treasury, Food Coupon, Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan and the like with Unique Identity Number (UID) card.
Madhya Pradesh has become the first state to link Aadhaar, the 12-digit number issued by UIDAI, to the subsidised foodgrain scheme. The state government thinks the new arrangement will totally eliminate fake beneficiaries of the subsidised foodgrain scheme. MP has cancelled lakhs of bogus ration cards over the last couple of years that were proving to be a drain on the public distribution sy
Rising global food prices in 2011 are likely to have greater repercussions on India
Resurgent global food prices, which averaged 10 per cent in many economies and posted record increases in the first two months of this year, may push nearly 30 million Indians and 64 million people in the Asian region into extreme poverty, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) warned on Tuesday. In a report titled
Inflation to bog down growth, push lakhs into poverty Rising food and fuel prices could hurt growth in India and push millions of countrymen into extreme poverty, Asian Development Bank said on Tuesday. India will be badly affected by high food prices as a 10% increase could push close to 30 million Indians below the poverty line, said an ADB study titled
New Delhi With the aim to reduce loopholes in the Targeted Public Distribution System (TPDS), minister for food and civil supplies KV Thomas on Monday held discussion with Planning Commission officials for modernisation of food distribution system. Montek Singh Ahuluwalia, deputy chairman of the Planning Commission heads a working group on PDS reform.
According to the third advance estimate, India
Warning the government about the serious consequences of its alleged "faulty" food distribution policy leading to creation of "two Indias of haves and have-nots,' the Supreme Court on Wednesday sought detailed affidavits form the Centre and deputy chairman of the Planning Commission that why its BPL figure of 36 per cent was much lower than those projected by almost all the states. Rejecting th