Food waste index report 2024
The Food Waste Index Report 2024 builds upon its predecessor in three key ways: Firstly, it incorporates vastly expanded data points from around the world, providing a significantly more robust global
The Food Waste Index Report 2024 builds upon its predecessor in three key ways: Firstly, it incorporates vastly expanded data points from around the world, providing a significantly more robust global
The current food crisis has several causes-rising demand for food and feed, biofuels, high oil prices, climate change, stagnant agricultural productivity growth-but there is increasing evidence that the crisis is being made worse by the malfunctioning of world grain markets. Given the thinness of major markets for cereals, the restrictions on grain exports imposed by dozens of countries have resulted in additional price increases. A number of countries have adopted retail price controls, creating perverse incentives for producers.
Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has said measures have been taken to ensure transparency in the Rs22 billion Food Stamp Scheme, which is being launched on Independence Day (today). According to a handout issued here on Wednesday, Sharif told a meeting on the food scheme that lists of deserving people had been compiled in a transparent manner.
The Punjab government will launch its Food Stamp Scheme across the province on Independence Day (today), said Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif on Wednesday. Presiding over a high-level meeting, he said measures had been taken to provide assistance to deserving people through the scheme.
Responding to food scarcities ahead of the festive season, the government is preparing to import 50,000 quintals of rice through Nepal Food Corporation to ease the shortage, a senior government official said. A committee led by Gyandarshan Udash, joint secretary at the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Supplies, recommended to the ministry to import rice from any country to improve the supply amid reports of acute food shortage in different districts ahead of major feasts.
Food, fuel and feed are now tied together, more than ever, by a single string
Government of Japan recently donated US $ 87,651 (approximately 9.34 million rupees) to the "Lanka Jathika Sarvodaya Sharamadana Sangamaya Inc.,' to secure food supply to the resettled internally displaced families in the Batticaloa District. A statement issued by the Japanese Embassy in Colombo said the funds released to the non governmental organization will assist the returning IDP families to enhance their food security and income sources in Manmunai South West, a conflict affected area, to get back to normalcy.
SAARC leaders yesterday issued a special
Vegetable prices have increased significantly in the city kitchen markets in the last one month due to a fall in supply from the districts, wholesalers and traders said. The wholesale price of most summer vegetables has increased by Tk 8 to 10 per kg. Traders attributed the scant supply to rain and increased transport cost following the latest fuel price hike.
Speakers at a discussion in Dhaka yesterday demanded land reform and formation of farmers' cooperative to ensure food sovereignty. "We need an agricultural system that is supportive of feeding all the countrymen. We have problems in the system of food production. But the main problem remains in the distribution system as it fails to distribute the produced food equally among all,' said Serajul Islam Choudhury, professor emirates of the University of Dhaka.
Press Trust Of India / New Delhi August 02, 2008, 3:52 IST The government will review the ban on the exports of non-basmati rice next week after taking a stock of the total availability of the grain. "We are having a meeting of the (empowered) Group of Ministers which is going to review food stock, crop availability and will take a decision' Commerce and Industry Minister Kamal Nath said. He said all the parameters like the total procurement and the production would be considered by the eGoM.