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>
In a major decision that is likely to add to the double-digit food inflation, the government has quietly raised foodgrain prices for Above Poverty Line (APL) families by over 40 per cent. The decision to this effect was taken at the meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on December 30.
Ajay Modi / New Delhi January 7, 2011, 0:20 IST Managing high agriculture commodity prices is becoming a concern for policy makers in India as well as globally.
Global food prices rose in December, with the FAO Food Price Index at a record high, the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation said on Wednesday, past 2008 highs when rising food prices sparked riots in a number of countries. Up for the sixth month in a row and fueled by surging sugar prices and rises in cereals and oils, the index was the highest since records began in 1990, in nominal terms, a
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THE food subsidy bill for 2010-11 could shoot up by nearly . 25,000 crore to touch . 80,000 crore, putting further pressure on the government
High protein food, including milk, eggs, meat and fish, is likely to become dearer by 10 per cent soon due to re-classification of bird and animal feed by the Ministry of Railways for a higher freight rate. The ministry under Mamata Banerjee has re-classified de-oiled cakes and oil meals from Class 110 to Class 120, effective December 27, which will entail a freight rate increase between 11
K P Prabhakaran Nair A high inflation rate, rising input costs, stagnant agriculture and a strengthening rupee -- portray a very disturbing scenario We cannot talk of GDP without talking of inflation.
<p>The FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) was signed into law by President Obama on January 4th, 2011. It aims to ensure the U.S. food supply is safe by shifting the focus of federal regulators from responding to contamination to preventing it. This Act may be cited as the ‘‘FDA Food Safety Modernization Act’</p>
This guide stresses that low-income, food-deficit countries have been hit hard by high food prices in recent years. Many of these countries have to pay larger food import bills when food prices are soaring.
<p><font face="Times New Roman">The National Advisory Council (NAC) which was entrusted with the task of formulating the first draft of the proposed National Food Security Act (NFSA) finally came out with its recommendations.