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>
<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>
The agriculture ministry is preparing a contingency plan to prevent food shortage---------- For the first time in 30 years, India stares at the probability of a drought, which threatens to worsen the already precarious food demand-supply balance and plunge the country into a deeper food security crisis.
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The proposed Food Security Act is against the interests of the State, Food and Civil Supplies Minister C.Divakaran said on Sunday.
The Public Distribution System with a network of 4,403 Fair Price Shops (FPS) was providing subsidised food grains and other commodities not only to below Poverty Line (BPL) families but also helping the Above Poverty Line (APL) families in Himachal to mitigate the effect of rising prices in the State.
JAIPUR: A pilot project on Food for Human Development (FFHD), sponsored by the U.N. World Food Programme, has benefited hundreds of villagers in the tribal-dominated Banswara, Dungarpur and Pratapgarh districts in southern Rajasthan by way of distribution of 958 metric tonnes of food grain through service delivery centres.
The global economic crisis will help push 100 million people into poverty this year through lost jobs and lower earnings, leaving one sixth of the world
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger made an unusual request Friday, asking President Obama to declare Fresno County a federal disaster area because of a three-year drought that is straining California
Even as the Agriculture Ministry is working round the clock to bring on table the Food Security Act to fulfil the Congress-led UPA government
THE government will take a call on the new rice export policy only after September when the new season begins and the stock position is known. The food and commerce ministries are also in favour of the move as the impact of monsoon on the rice crop will be known by then. The new policy proposes around 2 million tonnes of rice for export.
BPL Categorisation Could Be First Step To Food Safety Law, Bring In New Beneficiaries Nitin Sethi | TNN New Delhi: The debate on UPA
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: A food security law, to clearly define above-poverty and below-poverty line categories, will be formulated within 100 days, Union Minister of State for Agriculture and Food and Public Distribution K.V. Thomas has said.