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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Food security, productivity enhancement programme expanded
The Food Security and Productivity Enhancement Programme for small farmers has been expanded in 1012 Punjab villages with Rs100 million. A spokesman of Agriculture department on Sunday told APP that federal, provincial and district governments in Punjab would jointly carry out the programme. In Sialkot district, it would be carried out in 72 villages and each village be given funds amounting to Rs1.95 crore for the implementation of the programme while work on the project has been already initiated.
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Time to rethink food security
Editorial THE statement made by the head of the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) last week that the global food crisis could lead to civil war in some countries and requires a complete revamping of the international food system is both timely and welcome.
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Annapurna Yojna in 20 districts today
The much-hyped Mukhayamantri Annapurna Yojna will be launched in 20 districts of the State today. The scheme will be launched in consumer awareness camps, where food grains will be distributed to the Below Poverty Line (BPL) ration card holder families. Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan on Saturday had launched the Mukhayamantri Annapurna Yojna at Bhopal and Indore.
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Venkaiah hints at right to food'
Senior BJP leader M. Venkaiah Naidu hinted on Saturday that if the NDA was voted to power in the next general election, it would seriously consider amending the Constitution to include the "right to food" as a fundamental right of every citizen. The occasion was the launch of the state government's "Mukhya Mantri Annapurna Yojana" under which families holding BPL ration cards would be given wheat and rice at Rs 3 and Rs 4.50 per kg, respectively.
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Chance Of US Drought Seen; Food Squeeze Feared
The US Midwest has enjoyed nearly 20 years without a major drought but forecasters worry the corn belt's luck could dry up this year, further squeezing tight global supplies amid soaring food prices. With its last major drought in 1988, the Midwest has reached its average span of 18.6 years between droughts. Considering that statistic and current weather conditions, Iowa State University extension climatologist Elwynn Taylor said the corn belt has a one in three chance of drought this year. "We do have to be prepared," Taylor said. "A 33 percent chance is high, that's a risk."
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Wages of inaction
A food security system based on indigenous produce can alone combat the rising prices in India, reports Vibha Sharma TDP president N Chandrababu Naidu weighs vegetables with a balance during a dharna against price rise jointly organised by the TDP, CPI, CP(M) and SP. TDP president N Chandrababu Naidu weighs vegetables with a balance during a dharna against price rise jointly organised by the TDP, CPI, CP(M) and SP.
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WFP to cut down food to Sri Lanka, say reports
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has announced that it is forced to cut down its rations to about one million Sri Lankans who are currently being fed in the North and East, as prices of essential grain are hitting record levels around the world. WFP Country Director Mohamed Saleheen told local media that it would "suspend their food-for-work programme to about 175,000 people in the war-affected regions from May 1 and reduce rations of others from 1,900 kilocalories to 1,665 kilocalories per day per person.'
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Foodgrain quota issue rocks Parliament
The issue of reduction in foodgrain allocation to Kerala rocked both the Houses of Parliament. While the Left members staged a walkout in the Rajya Sabha, their counterparts in the Lok Sabha also registered their protest asking the government to raise the allocation to the State.
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Rising food prices a global crisis - UN Chief
Rising food prices have developed into a global crisis, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Friday. Concerns about food security mounted this week as rice prices hit records in Asia and the United States warned that staples for the world's hungry were getting much more expensive. "This steeply rising price of food has developed into a real global crisis,' Ban told journalists in Vienna. Anger over high food and fuel costs in recent months has sparked protests in several countries.
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Global crisis in food
Global food prices have witnessed an unprecedented surge in recent months. The increase in prices, which initially started with corn and wheat, has now engulfed all cereals, and vegetable oils, meat, milk and most fruits and vegetables. The food price index (base 2005=100) of the International Monetary Fund, which covers a large number of food items, reached 170 in March 2008; the highest value of the index in the past quarter century was 143 in November 1980. (Editorial) April 26-May 2, 2008