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>
JUST six months ago, in March, the Centre was facing the problem of plenty with rice. At 21 million tonnes, the stocks were four times the buffer norm of 5.2 million tonnes. Farmers were offloading premium varieties that sold at Rs 40 per kg in the retail at Rs 25 per kg to traders. Rice prices, analysts foretold, would crash due to unbearably heavy stocks.
Globally, 1.7 billion farmers are highly vulnerable to climate change impacts. The many who are already hungry are particularly vulnerable. Yet scaling up localised
The French High Biotech Council, in charge of advising the French Government on a wide range of biotech issues and composed of a scientific committee and a socio-economic committee, released its first report defining biotech-free production.
Seema Sindhu / New Delhi November 12, 2009, 0:09 IST The government has decided to limit the amount of trans fats in packaged foods. The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI)
He Changchui The Third World Summit on Food Security will be held next week in Rome -- from November 16 to 18 NEVER IN THE history of mankind have so many people been so hungry. Despite rapid development, modern technology and burgeoning international trade, today an estimated 1.02 billion people around the world are wanting for food.
S Kalyana Ramanathan / London November 10, 2009, 1:20 IST Pranab Mukherjee Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee said that despite the shortfall in agriculture production, India has adequate buffer stocks of rice and wheat and the government will import what is needed to maintain demand and supply.
More than one-fifth of Indians are still undernourished in terms of simple energy and protein intake, despite an increase in per capita availability of food commodities, Union Minister for Agriculture Sharad Pawar said here on Friday.
KOCHI: The present draft of the Food Security Act, aimed at guaranteeing food at affordable prices, will not result in food security, said agriculture scientist M S Swaminathan. A holistic approach is required to give integrated attention to all links in the production-consumption chain, said Prof Swaminathan.
KOCHI: Renowned agriculture scientist M.S. Swaminathan said here on Monday that the present draft of the Food Security Act would not provide food security. Delivering the Sarada-Krishna-Satgamaya Foundation lecture on
Concerns over food security can be addressed by either augmenting domestic output through appropriate growth-oriented policies, or arranging for timely imports of foods in short supply and distributing them equitably.. G. Chandrashekhar