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>
Why is the right to food important for the rural and urban poor? How does it help women and children? What are the obligations of States in relation to the right to food? These and other questions are answered in the Fact Sheet on
The international food price crisis in 2007/08 corresponded with significant price increases in domestic markets across the developing world. Prices rose in most Asian countries, but not to world levels. China, India and Indonesia saw no significant increases.
The literature regarding consumer demand for safer food in developing countries is scant, and the general assumption is that these consumers
Nistula Hebbar New Delhi: The Centre and National Advisory Council
The contracts for future wheat imports are currently on hold, as global prices have significantly increased following an export ban in Russia, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan. International prices of wheat are currently hovering around $370 per tonne
Dilip Kumar Jha / Mumbai September 28, 2010, 0:58 IST Begins using TCS software for daily update of grain movement. Changing a 46-year-old system, the Food Corporation of India (FCI), the public sector grain procurement agency, has decided to go online to make operations more transparent.
Smita Gupta New Delhi: The Sonia Gandhi-led National Advisory Council (NAC) may be close to finalising the contentious Food Security Bill when it meets here on September 24. Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia and officials from Ministries concerned, including Women and Child Development Secretary, will be present to try and help bridge the differences between the NAC
Sarajit Majumdar The second green revolution could be led by agribusiness multinationals and cause destruction of biodiversity Food standardisation and other features are aimed at meeting West- centric tastes of the urban elite and the middle class, provided by corporate retailers. So, domestic and foreign direct investors are vying for a piece of the peasant
In pushing for a greatly truncated PDS, the Food Security Bill proposed by the NAC, which has many right-to-food activists, undermines the PDS itself. ENSURING food security was the big promise of United Progressive Alliance-2.