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>
Food Policy
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Former CACP chief criticises decision on paddy support price
Gargi Parsai NEW DELHI: The government on Monday came in for criticism from none other than the former Commissioner of the Commission for Agriculture Costs and Prices (CACP), T. Haque, who expressed the apprehension that tinkering with the recommendation of the Commission would dilute the role of the CACP and ultimately lead to the scrapping of the minimum support price regime to expose farmers to market forces.
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Thailand to provide 50,000 MT of rice to Sri Lanka
Colombo: Sri Lanka's Foreign Minister Rohitha Bogollagama after a recent official visit to Thailand said that Thailand government has agreed to provide 50,000 MT of rice to Sri Lanka. The decision was taken following a discussion Minister Bogollagama held with Thailand's Prime Minister and Foreign Minister.
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Bumper crop ensures China's food safety
Country maintains rising momentum in grain production for fifth year JINAN: China's agricultural authority has expressed confidence in the summer harvest, as farmers around the country have put over half the output in the granary with the rest to be cropped before the end of the month. A Ministry of Agriculture official said major grain production areas are poised to sustain a bumper summer crop for the fifth year in a row, maintaining the rising momentum in grain production.
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Climate change hampering food production: seminar
Climate change is causing sharp decline in food grin production across the world and Bangladesh is one of the worst-affected victims of this climate change, said speakers at a scientific seminar in Chittagong on Sunday. The Institute of Forestry and Environmental Science of Chittagong University organised the seminar on climate change. Professor Al Amin, director of the institute, presented keynote paper at the seminar when Dr Atique Rahman, executive director of the Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies, was the chief guest.
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Is doomsday upon us again ?
During the last American food-and-gas-price crisis, in the 1970s, one of my colleagues on the Berkeley student newspaper told me that he and his semi-communal housemates had taken a vote. They'd calculated they could afford meat or coffee. They chose coffee.
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How food and fuel can reshape politics
THE current global energy-food crisis is, understandably, a pocket-book issue in America. But when you come to Egypt, you see how, in a society where so many more people live close to the edge, food and fuel prices could become enormously destabilising. If these prices keep soaring, food and fuel could reshape politics around the developing world as much as nationalism or Communism did in their days.
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Zimbabwe pits currency against food price
In the face of an economic meltdown, Zimbabwe has suspended import duty on basic commodities for 90 days, with effect from May 12. The cost of imported basic commodities has sky-rocketed since
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Farmers threaten road blockade in A.P.
The farmers' wings of all Opposition parties will organise blockade of roads across the State from 11 a.m. to noon on June 19 demanding a Minimum Support Price of Rs. 1,000 a quintal for paddy. The demonstration was finalised by leaders of the organisations at a meeting convened by Andhra Pradesh Rythu Sangham, affiliated to CPI, at the Makhdoom Bhavan on Friday. It was attended, among others, by C. Muthyam Reddy (TDP), P. Sugunakar Rao (BJP), Surender Reddy (TRS) and Prabhakar Reddy (Federation of Farmers Organisations).
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Right to Food versus Right to Profit
The world food summit in Rome failed to even recognise the basic problem, let alone remedy it. (Editorial)
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Paddy MSP sows seeds of discontent
BJP, CPM Up In Arms To