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>
CONDITIONAL CASH TRANSFER & FOOD COUPONS HOLD KEY TO SUCCESS DESPITE RECORDING AN AVERAGE GROwth of 8.5% in the five years to 2009-10, poverty and malnutrition still remain daunting in the country. Nearly 41.6% Indians live on less than $1.25 a day and 43.5% of under-five children are underweight.
The financial implications of the proposed national food security legislation, the broad contours of which were finalised by Sonia Gandhi-led National Advisory Council (NAC) last month, are all set to be examined by the top economic advisors of the country before the legislation is taken forward. In fact, the Prime Minister
Fear dilution of proposals, in favour of pro-market and anti-PDS views. The Sonia Gandhi-led National Advisory Council
Led by C. Rangarajan, it has been appointed by Manmohan Experts group will examine the very decisions taken at October 25 NAC meet Draft bill for setting up an autonomous National Food Commission NEW DELHI: In a significant move, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has formed an experts group chaired by the chief of Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council, C.
Arecent paper by Kaushik Basu, the chief economic adviser to the government, titled,
AGARTALA - The Food Corporation of India (FCI) has embarked on a Rs 550-crore project to broaden storage facilities and maintain uninterrupted supply of food grain to the northeastern states, a top official said here Thursday. "The corporation has started implementation of the Rs 550-crore project to build big godowns, storage facilities in most of the districts of seven northeastern states," F
A PARLIAMENTARY committee has asked the government to consider incentivising private players to set up grain storage facilities as it prepares to implement the right to food. The government will require around 620 lakh tonnes of foodgrain annually to implement the food security law.
Continuing the debate on the Deaton and Dreze analysis of food and nutrition in India, it is argued that the latter’s analysis is defective because (i) it does not look at direct and indirect cereal consumption
Utsa Patnaik’s new critique of our work on food and nutrition is wholly unconvincing. Her analysis of international patterns of “total” cereal consumption, interesting as it may be, does not invalidate