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• 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>

  • 27/03/2024

  • UNEP
  • • Food Security
    • Food Supply
    • Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
    • India
    • Global
    • Africa

• WFP to give $51.6m aid for girls education

  Pakistan Minister for Education and former director-general of Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) Javed Ashraf Qazi on Wednesday said the UN World Food Programme (WFP) would provide $51.6 million

  • 16/12/2004

  • • Food Policy

• Huge gaps in food security and livelihood needs

  The indigenous people from the Saharia tribe constituting a small minority of the rural population in Datia district of Madhya Pradesh now find themselves caught in a process of transition that has

  • 03/10/2004

  • Hindu (New Delhi)
  • • Food Policy

• The prevention of food adulteration act & rules (as on 1.10.2004)

  An Act to make provision for prevention of adulteration of the food. This Act may be called the Prevention of Food Adulteration Act, 1954. It extends to the whole of India. It shall come into force on such date as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.

  • 01/10/2004

  • Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
  • • Pesticides
    • Food Standards
    • Food Adulteration
    • Food Additives
    • Prevention of Food Adulteration Act 1954
    • Pesticides And Toxins
    • Legislation
    • India

• Food for all

  The right-to-food campaign gets a fillip with the Common Minimum Programme of the new government incorporating far-reaching commitments on food security and the evolving constitutional doctrine that public

  • 02/07/2004

  • Frontline (Chennai)
  • • Food Security
    • India
    • Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS)
    • Supreme Court
    • Bihar
    • Jharkhand
    • Uttar Pradesh
    • Assam
    • Haryana
    • Arunachal
    • Delhi
    • Himachal Pradesh
    • Meghalaya
    • Mizoram
    • Orissa (Odisha)
    • Punjab
    • West Bengal
    • Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand)

• Supreme Court order on Mid Day Meal Scheme (MDMS) dated 20/04/2004

  Supreme Court order on Mid Day Meal Scheme (MDMS) dated 20/04/2004 in the matter of People's Union for Civil Liberties Vs Union of India & Ors.

  • 20/04/2004

  • • Mid-Day Meal Programme
    • Child Health
    • Supreme Court
    • Anti-Poverty Programmes
    • Tribals
    • Government Of India (GOI)
    • Bihar
    • Uttar Pradesh
    • Jharkhand
    • Nutrition

• Death's welcome here, at least it gets us attention and some food'

  The spotlight has been switched off. The political drama over the 20

  • 28/12/2003

  • Indian Express (New Delhi)
  • • Food Policy

• Call to combat global hunger

  More than 100 countries endorsed a campaign to raise an additional $50 billion a year in development aid to combat global hunger, but US poured cold water on the project. "The greatest scandal is not

  • 22/12/2003

  • • Food Policy

• NHRC notice to U.P. Govt. on 'starvation deaths'

  The National Human Rights Commission has issued notice to the Uttar Pradesh Chief Secretary to examine and respond to a complaint alleging deaths of 18 tribal children in sonebhadra district to the

  • 05/11/2003

  • Hindu (New Delhi)
  • • Food Policy

• 55% DJB water does not reach customers

  On per capita basis, Delhiites are supposed to get more water on daily basis than consumers in developed countries like France, Germany and United Kingdom. According to the Delhi Jal Board, the

  • 28/07/2003

  • Business Standard (New Delhi)
  • • Dams
    • Irrigation

• Supreme Court order on right to food dated 02/05/2003

  Supreme Court order on right to food dated 02/05/2003.

  • 02/05/2003

  • • Food Security
    • Mid-Day Meal Programme
    • Food Supply
    • Anti-Poverty Programmes
    • India