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 ministry has cited limited availability of grains for the proposed National Food Security Act and told the National Advisory Council, currently drafting the bill, to provide legal entitlements only to the below poverty line (BPL) persons. As per the NAC recommendation, the BPL families will get 35 kg of food grains per month, including rice at Rs. 3 per kg wheat at Rs.
The below poverty line (BPL) and Antodaya Anna Yojana (AAY) families in Karantaka get only 20 kg instead of the scheduled 35 kg of food grain every month due to paucity of supply by the Centre, the Supreme Court has been told. Out of about 5.28-crore population in Karnataka, 25 per cent, numbering 1.38 crore people averaging 37 per cent nationally, belong to below poverty line (BPL) and get ben
The Centre informed the Supreme Court on Thursday that it would soon put in place the National Food Security legislation after taking into consideration the recommendations of the National Advisory Council. This law would address the court's concerns over making foodgrains allotment to the States. Attorney-General G. E.
The Supreme Court on Thursday sought Centre's response on eight important points related to firming up the food distribution system to the below poverty line (BPL) families in the country. The eight points were framed by the apex court mainly in the light of Justice Wadhwa committee report, agriculture and food ministry's earlier affidavit and the vast difference in the number of BPL data of th
Global meet's call to reverse inefficient farming methods HANOI: Urgent action is needed to reverse inefficient farming methods and boost the world's supply of rice to prevent rising poverty and hunger, experts told a major world rice congress on Tuesday.
Bhopal: The Bhopal Municipal Corporation will start the Ram Roti Yojana at four Rein Baseras in the city on November 2. The scheme will be inaugurated by Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan at a function at Yadgar-e-Shahjehani Park in the evening. Under the scheme, food will be served at the rate of Rs 5 per head to the poor travellers making a night halt at these Rein Baseras.
The dramatic surge in food prices from 2005 to 2008 seriously threatened the world's poor, who struggle to buy food even under normal circumstances, and led to protests and riots in the developing world. The crisis eventually receded, but such surges could recur unless steps are taken to prevent them.
The National Advisory Council (NAC) recommendation to guarantee foodgrain to two-thirds of the country
Noting that even 10 years after it ordered that the country can ill-afford to have its surplus foodgrains eaten by rats in government godowns or dumped in sea while the poor go hungry, the Supreme Court on Friday asked the Attorney General to respond to the continued inadequate disbursement of foodgrains to Below Poverty Line (BPL) families.
New Delhi: The SC on Friday wanted to know Centre