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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Sri Lanka President leaves for Rome to attend conference on food security
Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa has left the country for Rome to attend a high-level conference on world food security. President Rajapaksa is to participate in the High-Level Conference on World Food Security and the Challenges of Climate Change and Bioenergy to be held in Rome, Italy from June 3-5, 2008 on an invitation from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). The High-Level Conference, open only to the invited participants will address food security and poverty reduction in the face of climate change and energy security.
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Japan PM leaves for Europe for talks on food crisis
Japanese prime minister Yasuo Fukuda left for Europe on Sunday for talks with fellow leaders on the global food crisis as he prepares to host the Group of Eight summit in July, officials said. Fukuda, facing slumping approval ratings, hopes to use the G8 summit of world leaders to boost Japan's diplomatic clout and highlight its efforts to help tackle global warming and food shortages in developing countries. On the first leg of his five-day European trip, he is to arrive in Berlin late Sunday to hold talks with German chancellor Angela Merkel, a government official said.
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Global food crisis and Indian response
M.S. Swaminathan It is hoped that at the Rome Conference on world food security, Indian representatives will serve as a bright affirming flame in the midst of the sea of despair we see around us.
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Global meet on food crisis in Rome
World leaders are set to gather in Rome on Tuesday for a high-profile summit on food security as runaway prices have sparked riots across the world. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will open the conference by unveiling an "action plan" to confront the scourge, said diplomats ahead of the conference, which lasts through Thursday, at the Food and Agriculture Organisation's headquarters here. The plan was put together by a crisis team involving the heads of several U.N. agencies and the Bretton Woods institutions, said the sources.
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Food and oil fuel expectations (editorial)
There is a sense of deja vu in the government's reaction to the latest inflation figures announced on Friday. For the week ending with May 17, inflation measured by the WPI index climbed to a 45-month high of 8.1 per cent. During the corresponding week last year, inflation was at 5.3 per cent. Finance Minister P.Chidambaram termed the development worrisome and suggested that although recent government measures would act to contain inflation, it might take a while bef ore there is a distinct moderation. That is because global crude and other commodity prices continue to be at record highs.
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High Food Prices, Drought Threaten Ethiopia Again
Clutching an intricate bronze cross he used to dig graves during Ethiopia's 1984-1985 famine, priest Alemayu Gede prays drought and high food prices will not make him use it as a shovel again. At the height of the famine that caused more than 1 million deaths and spawned the Band Aid project bringing dozens of top musicians together to raise money, Alemayu helped dig 200 graves a day with the symbol of his faith which he carries everywhere.
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Brazil To Defend Biofuels At UN Summit In Rome
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said on Sunday he would seek to convince world leaders gathering in Rome this week that ethanol is not to blame for global food inflation threatening millions with hunger. Brazil is the world's largest ethanol exporter and a pioneer in sugar-cane based biofuels, making it a target of critics who say ethanol is behind increases in world commodity prices.
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Food prices to stay high as biofuels blamed
Food prices will remain high over the next decade even if they fall from current records, meaning millions more risk further hardship or hunger, the OECD and the U.N.'s FAO food agency said in a report published on Thursday. Beyond stating the immediate need for humanitarian aid, the international bodies suggested wider deployment of genetically modified crops and a rethink of biofuel programs that guzzle grain which could otherwise feed people and livestock.
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High Food Prices, Drought Threaten Ethiopia Again
Clutching an intricate bronze cross he used to dig graves during Ethiopia's 1984-1985 famine, priest Alemayu Gede prays drought and high food prices will not make him use it as a shovel again. At the height of the famine that caused more than 1 million deaths and spawned the Band Aid project bringing dozens of top musicians together to raise money, Alemayu helped dig 200 graves a day with the symbol of his faith which he carries everywhere.
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Brazil To Defend Biofuels At UN Summit In Rome
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said on Sunday he would seek to convince world leaders gathering in Rome this week that ethanol is not to blame for global food inflation threatening millions with hunger. Brazil is the world's largest ethanol exporter and a pioneer in sugar-cane based biofuels, making it a target of critics who say ethanol is behind increases in world commodity prices.