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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G8 to issue special paper on food crisis
Leaders of the Group of Eight powers plans to issue a special statement on food security during their July summit in Hokkaido in a concerted effort to cushion the negative effects of surging food prices, Japanese government sources said Saturday. It will be the first time for leaders from Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia and the United States to issue a statement exclusively focused on food issues, the sources said.
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Rising food prices: Cause for concern
The current spike in food prices needs prompt reaction through various forms of social protection to avert poverty and hunger. Prices are soon likely to fall somewhat, but not to their previous levels.
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Study on review of fruit products order 1955: final report
This study initiated by the Ministry of Food Processing Industries covers overall review of existing FPO 1955 and suggests amendments based upon developments and modernization in Fruit and Vegetable Processing Industry.
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The time is now: how world leaders should respond to the food price crisis
The food price crisis represents an enormous challenge to the leadership and legitimacy of the world's multilateral institutions, but is also a genuine opportunity to deliver long overdue reforms to the food and agriculture system. Those countries with the resources and power to deliver such reforms should take the lead, as they have done in trying to avert a global financial crisis. This briefing note sets out a series of steps, both short- and medium-term, to deal with the current food crisis, and to put in place the reforms required to prevent future repetitions.
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Food vs. fuel: Diversion of crops could cause more hunger
Biofuels are being promoted as energy sources that could reduce both dependence on imported oil and fossil fuel emissions. Currently, a large percentage of biofuels are produced from food crops, a situation that some experts say is leading to food insecurity around the world.
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Surging food prices mean global instability
The recent surge in world food prices is already creating havoc in poor countries, and worse is to come. Food riots are spreading across Africa, though many are unreported in the international press. Moreover, the surge in wheat, maize and rice prices seen on commodities markets have not yet fully percolated into the shops and stalls of the poor countries or the budgets of relief organizations. Nor has the budget crunch facing relief organizations such as the World Food Program, which must buy food in world markets, been fully felt.
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World Bank acts to mitigate food crisis, unveils $1.2 bn fund
The World Bank on Thursday unveiled a $1.2 billion fast-track funding facility to help combat the impact of rising food prices on the poor. The facility includes a $200 million trust fund which will pay for grants targeted at the world's poorest countries. The facility will be used to speed up the financing of safety net programmes, including conditional cash transfers and school feeding programmes. It will also support food production by supplying seeds and fertiliser, as well as providing budget assistance to countries that have cut food tariffs.
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A potato war' between Peru, Chile
Peru: They have quarreled over the 1880's pillaging of Peru's national library by Chilean troops. They have squabbled over who has the naming rights to pisco, the fiery grape brandy. Now, Peru and Chile are arguing over another hot-button issue: the origins of the potato. Peruvian agronomists, historians and diplomats are chafing at an assertion by Marigen Hornkohl, Chile's agriculture minister, who said on Monday, "Few people know that 99% of the world's potatoes have some type of genetic link to potatoes from Chile.' Peru, where the potato is a
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Long-term vision needed to solve African food shortages
Investing in agriculture in Africa to solve food shortages is more important than just reacting to the continent's present food crisis, according to the leader of a U.N. food aid organization. "The real underlying problem is a long-term one; productivity growth in agriculture is going down," International Fund for Agricultural Development President Lennart Bage said in a Thursday interview with The Japan Times.
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Japan, Africa commit urgent action on food crisis
Africa? leaders and Japan pledged Friday to ramp up the continent? food production, seeking to put the crisis of spiralling prices firmly on the agenda of the Group of Eight rich nations. Wrapping up a three-day summit in Yokohama, near Tokyo, Japan also won renewed support for its top foreign policy goal ?securing a permanent seat at the UN Security Council ?which has been blocked under pressure from China.