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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Analytics of food inflation in India
Food inflation in India has remained stubborn in recent years. A number of proximate factors such as increasing demand particularly arising from higher rural wages, rising agricultural cost of production,
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Aid groups cheer food price fall to 4-year low, 'hunger hotspots' remain
World food prices have hit a four-year low, a UN agency reported on Thursday, with record harvests breathing new hope into the fight against hunger, though some "hunger hotspots" remain. Global wheat
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Ebola - FAO Launches New Initiative to Tackle Growing Food Security Threat
FAO today launched a new programme to urgently assist 90 000 vulnerable households in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone whose food supplies and livelihoods are threatened by the disruptive effect the Ebola
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Diversity of food composition and nutritive analysis of edible wild plants in a multi-ethnic tribal land, Northeast India: an important facet for food supply
<p>In view of increasing threat of climate change, extreme whether conditions, and recent financial crisis there has been a concern for augmenting agriculture and food supply to growing population, particularly
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Food crunch hits far-west hill districts‚ famine looms large
DIPAYAL: Folks of hilly districts in the far-west are facing food crisis due to obstruction of supply of food grain after the road was damaged due to landslide some two-and-a-half months ago. The roads
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Climate aid needed for 500 million small farmers: researchers
As world leaders meet in New York for yet another climate change summit, concerns over wild weather patterns disrupting food supplies are increasingly finding their way to the table. About 500 million
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World hunger easing but 1 in 9 people undernourished - food agencies
The number of hungry people in the world has fallen sharply over the past decade but 805 million, or one in nine of the global population, still do not have enough to eat, three U.N. food and agriculture
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Water for food in Bangladesh: outlook to 2030
This study assesses the changing consumption patterns of rice in Bangladesh and its implications on water demand by 2030. Rice dominates food and water consumption patterns in the country; it contributed
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Venezuela to create fingerprinting system to limit food smuggling
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro ordered the creation of a fingerprinting system in stores that sell food to limit smuggling of subsidized staple products to neighbouring countries. The system, announced
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Food poverty in Scotland 'not acceptable' says Sturgeon
The level of food poverty in Scotland is "simply not acceptable", Nicola Sturgeon has said. The deputy first minister announced £518,000 in funding aimed at tackling food poverty for 26 projects across