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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WWF, Sindh Livestock, Fisheries sign MoU
Food security is a major challenge and requires long term measures in a country like Pakistan. This was stated by the Secretary, Livestock and Fisheries Department, Government of Sindh, Shoaib Ahmed Siddiqui at the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signing ceremony between the Department and WWF-Pakistan's Indus for All Programme. Speaking on the occasion, he further said that the Department would extend full cooperation to WWF-Pakistan to achieve the objectives of the MoU.
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Kalikot hit hard by severe food shortage
People in five VDC's of remote Palata region of far-western Kalikot district are facing acute food shortage. As the farmers in the region largely depend on rainwater for crop production and sowing, the persistent drought since last year has made them unable to grow their crops resulting in a severe food shortage in the district, Kantipur Daily reports. Around 35,000 people at Kin, Thirpu, Nanikot, Badalkot, Ramnakot and Dhaulagoha have been affected by the food shortage, making many of them go out to search for food in neighboring villages and district headquarters Manma.
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Myanmar biofuel drive deepens food shortage
Myanmar is struggling to feed its people in the aftermath of Cyclone Nargis -- in part because the regime has been forcing some farmers to stop growing rice in a plan to produce biofuel instead. In 2005 the military government's leader Than Shwe ordered a national drive to plant jatropha, a poisonous nut he hoped would be the cornerstone of a state industry that would capitalise on growing world demand for biofuels.
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Rice Crop To Hit Record, But Prices Still Rising
World rice output is expected to hit a record high this year, but growing demand and export curbs should keep prices high, at least in the short term, the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organisation said on Monday. Rice prices have been surging as governments and importers rush to stock up, spurred by growing fears the food staple will be in short supply. "World paddy production in 2008 could grow by about 2.3 percent, reaching a new record level of 666 million tonnes, according to our preliminary forecasts," FAO rice expert Concepcion Calpe said in a statement on Monday.
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Solutions from a Hunger Crisis
The global food crisis has brought on riots in about a dozen countries and left many panicked world leaders scrambling for answers. Alarming increases in once-affordable basic food staples such as rice, corn, and wheat have made millions more of the world's poor vulnerable to hunger and malnutrition. Past food market emergencies have been mainly regional in scope.
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ALL ABOUT FOOD- The food crisis can be addressed with the help of science
The Fifties and Sixties were replete with news of food shortages in India. Following the Green Revolution, India became self-sufficient and the memories of shortages became history. The ongoing global food crisis is altogether a new development. The energy crisis, on the other hand, is not new and has remained a global issue since the Seventies. The commodity crisis is more a cyclical phenomenon and hence not entirely unfamiliar, while the banking crisis is self-inflicted. The man-made food crises in Africa are different and have been frequent, leading to misery and starvation deaths.
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Check population to check inflation
Managing Inflation has become a bugbear for everyone in this country. The galloping inflation has made the life of ordinary citizen miserable in as much as it has become very difficult to make both ends meet. Prices of foodgrains, oil, milk, vegetables and other essential commodities which constitute an average of more than 50% of the family budget have hit the roof. The situation has become alarming. The main reasons are the fall in agriculture production in the country and all over the world.
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Europe urged to combat rising food prices
UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling will call on European Union finance ministers to combat rising food prices by removing import levies and scrapping rules that keep food prices in the 27-nation bloc artificially high. Darling said the action is needed to curb headline inflation rates and to help the poorest households deal with a 7% increase in food prices that took place in the year through March, according to a letter he will send his EU counterparts tomorrow. Darling is due to meet with ministers in Brussels this week.
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Supermarkets rip us off, farmers claim
Victoria's peak farming body has accused the major supermarket chains of ripping off consumers and farmers by labelling the same products differently. Grocery chains often have up to three different private brands which are priced differently but contain the same product, the Victorian Farmers Federation (VFF) told an inquiry into grocery prices in Melbourne on Monday. "There's home brand, there's a medium one, then there's the top one," VFF Deputy President Meg Parkinson said. "They don't say Woolworths or Coles, they have got another name.
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UN task force on food crisis meets today
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will chair the first meeting of the UN Task Force on the Global Food Crisis on Monday, the UN has announced. It will bring together representatives from across the UN system to discuss a global response to rising food prices, UN spokesperson Marie Okabe told reporters at the UN Headquarters. Meanwhile, the secretary-general has sent out urgent letters of invitation to all heads of state of UN member countries to join him in next month's meeting in Rome to discuss short-term and long-term strategies to address the global food crisis, she added.