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 food min March 16: The food ministry is working hard to arrive at a middle ground on the differences between the
KOLKATA: The poor aged people, residing in 91 blocks across the districts of West Bengal, could not be brought under the state government's scheme to provide cooked food to them due to various reasons, including lack of initiative from panchayat authorities, Mr Anisur Rahman, state panchayat and rural development minister, told the Assembly today. He was answering a question raised by DSP MLA M
The National Advisory Council (NAC) has now sketched out the
New Delhi, 13 March: About 6,348 tons of foodgrain stored in various government outlets across the country were damaged primarily due to storage pest attack and leakages in godowns in 2010-11, a fact which does not go down well for the country's food security.
Following differences between the Sonia Gandhi headed NAC and the Rangarajan Committee, an empowered group of ministers (eGoM) on food is scheduled to meet on March 17 to decide on the feasibility of providing legal entitlement of cheaper foodgrain to the poor. The PM
It is time for the National Advisory Council (NAC) to introspect whether its pious thoughts on food security square up to an economic reality check. There are three likely scenarios: (1) universal coverage at 35 kg/per month per family; (2) universal coverage with 25 kg per family per month; and (3) partial coverage (say, to 11 crore families) with 35 kg per family per month.
The Right to Food Campaign on Monday announced its decision to launch a country-wide protest against the National Advisory Council's framework for the proposed National Food Security Bill, which, they said, fell short of people's expectation of a comprehensive food security bill that addressed nutrition and livelihood issues.
The Right to Food campaign has criticised the National Advisory Council's framework note on the proposed National Food Security Bill stating it fails to address key issues of hunger, malnutrition and food insecurity in the country. The campaign said the NAC framework note has been delinked from food security.
THE ITO crossing was full of protest chants against the government's move to provide cash instead of subsidised food and fuel through the Public Distribution System (PDS). Women from slums and resettlement colonies across Delhi-NCR and representatives of 30-odd organisations that participated in the protest -organised by `Rozi-Roti Aadhikar Abhiyan' -expressed discontentment over the decision.
Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee has brought cheer to companies wanting to set up cold chains, or refrigerated warehouses, by according infrastructure status to post-harvest storage, making it easy for the sector to secure much-needed foreign investment.