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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IMA endorsing products?
The Indian Medical Association (IMA) is at the eye of storm for its alleged move to endorse PepsiCo's Tropicana juice and Quaker oats. The IMA, an 80-year-old national organisation of doctors of modern scientific system of medicine, has risked the wrath of union health minister Anbhumani Ramadoss. The IMA, however, has paid scant attention to Ramadoss' criticism and sees no harm in promoting oatmeal, which is a cholesterol reducing food. The 1,76,000 strong body of doctors, has denied reports of receiving a payment of Rs 50 lakh for the endorsement.
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Organised retail to help food processing: Sahai
Organised retail sector will create the right environment for the growth and development of food processing industry in the country, Union minister of state for food processing industries Subodh Kant Sahai, said on Saturday. Most of the processed foods produced in the small and micro sectors in India are not properly developed and branded yet.
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Go Easy On Biofuels Until More Clarity - World Bank
A senior World Bank official said on Thursday that countries should not greatly increase biofuels production until there is more clarity about how much they have contributed to the global food price crisis. Juergen Voegele, director for agriculture and rural development department at the World Bank, cautioned against shifting a lot of the blame to biofuels but also said massive subsidies for the biofuel industry was not helping the crisis.
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Wrong response worsens Asia food crisis, says ADB
Asia's response to tightening global grain supplies has aggravated food price inflation and uncertainty, according to an Asian Development Bank (ADB) report released here on Friday. Export bans and price floors imposed by grain exporters including China, Pakistan, Vietnam and India have increased price volatility and uncertainty in the international rice Markets reducing supplies. "These have been contributing significantly to the surge in rice price especially since the end of 2007,' a Manila-based lender said.
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Small and marginal farmers need govt support to ensure food security
Small and marginal farmers need govt support to ensure food security The country needs to protect the small and marginal farmers and entrepreneurs for sustainable growth of agribusiness by providing them with financial and infrastructural support in order to attain food security in the future, said speakers at a seminar on Thursday.
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India's rice export ban a temporary move
India and Vietnam have indicated that their independent restrictions on the export of certain varieties of rice are "temporary, short-term management tools that they need for their own particular situations,' according to the Association of South East Asian Nations Secretary General, Surin Pitsuwan. India, a major dialogue partner of the ASEAN, and Vietnam, a member of the 10-nation group, rank next only to Thailand, another member of this association, as the world's three largest rice-exporters.
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Japan to alleviate food price rise crisis
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has appealed for urgent funds to sustain its operations in Sri Lanka in the wake of the rapid surge in commodity prices. The price of staple food such as rice has doubled over the year in Sri Lanka and in some countries tripled; reducing the volume of the commodities WFP can procure within the allocated budget by almost 50 per cent, a WFP news release said.
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U.S. consumes more cereals than India'
"The United States consumes more cereals including wheat, rice and maize than India.' In answer to a question during his press conference on inflation, Convener of the Congress party's National Media Committee Kapil Sibal quoted the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) to say that while the projected growth in the consumption pattern of cereals in India was 2.17 per cent between 2006-07 and 2007-08, it was 11.81 per cent for the United States during the same period. The average percentage increase globally was only 2.06 per cent.
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World food prices and situation in Bangladesh
AMID deepening hunger crisis, Bangladesh is gradually beginning to stand on her own feet. One standing crop, Boro, is going to change the scenario. The impact of the healthy farm condition is being reflected in the wholesale and retail markets of staple foods, and the prices are going down everyday. The lines in the Open Market Sales (OMS) shops are shortening gradually.
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FOOD FOR THOUGHT (Editorial)
When Shri Bush and Kumari Condoleezza Rice talk about rising prices of food and pass the buck of their failure to grow enough food for the American people onto the growing middle classes of what were once-upon-a-time third world countries, they merely endorse the fact that India and China are no longer dependent but instead, economically powerful and making a strong, determined impact on the rich Western world led by the United States of America. The Iraq war has debilitated America and exposed its many warts