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 Supply
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Famine looms large in Jajarkot
JAJARKOT, JAN 15 - The threat of acute shortage of food looms large in the remote region owing to the failure of Nepal Food Corporation (NFC) to transport subsidized rice to its depots located in remote
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Food security in India: The imperative and its challenges
<p>This article addresses the imperative of food security in India in the context of persistent prevalence of malnutrition despite several years of rapid growth. In particular, the article posits that
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Food Assistance Outlook Brief, December 2014
This brief summarizes FEWS NET’s most forward-looking analysis of projected emergency food assistance needs in FEWS NET coverage countries. The projected size of each country’s acutely food insecure population
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Reshaping destinies
<p>The local village communities in Zaheerabad have been able to reclaim their fallowed lands and cultivate a myriad varieties of traditional landraces of food grains. They have not only been able to control
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France's Total developing advanced biofuel sugars from plant waste
Total SA is exploring ways to convert sugars from plant waste that could be used to fuel aircraft while cutting greenhouse gases, the French oil major said on Tuesday. As commercial production of transportation
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Agricultural trade liberalization for food security in South Asia
Latest available figures indicate that close to 40 per cent of the world’s population suffering from hunger and malnutrition belongs to South Asia. Remarkable strides towards enhancing food production
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Economic analysis of supply and demand for food up to 2030: special focus on fish and fishery products
With the world’s population expected to reach 8.2 billion people by 2030, and with 842 million people estimated as having been undernourished in the period 2011–13, food supply will present a growing challenge
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China donates $6mln to assist Ebola-affected
China on Monday announced a new batch of $6-million donation to the United States World Food Program’s emergency operation to assist 1.3 billion people impacted by the Ebola virus outbreak in the three
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The State of Food and Agriculture 2014: Innovation in family farming
The State of Food and Agriculture 2014: Innovation in family farming analyses family farms and the role of innovation in ensuring global food security, poverty reduction and environmental sustainability.
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Somalia: One Million Somalis At Risk of Starvation, UN Envoy Warns, Briefing Security Council
The United Nations envoy in Somalia warned today that despite some political and security gains, the humanitarian situation in the long-troubled country has deteriorated, with more than three million people