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>
New Delhi: If the national job guarantee law was the flagship scheme of the first UPA, Congress president Sonia Gandhi has, in her first letter to re-elected Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, asked him to fulfil the party
Although the Food Security Bill is unlikely to materialise before the Union Budget in July, hectic preparations are on to give the UPA Government
Ramesh Sharma Long way to go: The Union Minister for Food Processing Industries, Mr Subodh Kant Sahay (right), and the Director, Central Food Technological Research Institute, Mr V. Prakash, at the 2nd Food Technology Summit in the Capital on Monday.
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The proposed Food Security Act is against the interests of the State, Food and Civil Supplies Minister C.Divakaran said on Sunday.
The Public Distribution System with a network of 4,403 Fair Price Shops (FPS) was providing subsidised food grains and other commodities not only to below Poverty Line (BPL) families but also helping the Above Poverty Line (APL) families in Himachal to mitigate the effect of rising prices in the State.
New Delhi: The number of hungry people in the world may cross one billion in 2009 due to the shocks of the global economic crisis combined with high food prices in a few countries, the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said.
New Delhi: Ahead of finalising the proposed National Food Security Act (NFSA), the government is struggling first to enumerate the actual number of Below Poverty Line (BPL) families in the country and to identify agencies both at the Centre and the states to take the legal responsibility for implementing the Act.
JAIPUR: A pilot project on Food for Human Development (FFHD), sponsored by the U.N. World Food Programme, has benefited hundreds of villagers in the tribal-dominated Banswara, Dungarpur and Pratapgarh districts in southern Rajasthan by way of distribution of 958 metric tonnes of food grain through service delivery centres.
The global economic crisis will help push 100 million people into poverty this year through lost jobs and lower earnings, leaving one sixth of the world
The National Food Security Act, a high point of the Budget due to be presented by finance minister Pranab Mukherjee, is giving the government plenty to chew on. The crux of the debate is whether government can bite the bullet and deroster APL (above poverty line) beneficiaries to re-target food subsidies.