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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Nepal makes improvements in hunger reduction
Nepal has moved up from having an ‘alarming’ hunger situation to ‘serious’, according to the scores of the Global Hunger Index 2013 report released this week. The report, published by International
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Hunger reduction rate slower than poverty'
The rate of reduction in hunger is slower than poverty in the country while the rate of decline has slowed down in both cases, according to Unnayan Onneshan, an independent multidisciplinary think-tank.
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Radical climate change just around the corner: Study
Earth may experience a radically different climate within 34 years, forever changing life as we know it, said a study that aims to bring the dangers of global warming into sharper focus. On current
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Understanding the sustainability of retail food recovery
<p>In this paper we study the simultaneous problems of food waste and hunger in the context of food (waste) rescue and redistribution as a means for mitigating hunger. To this end, we develop an empirical
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A targeted approach: India's expanding social safety net
India’s sheer size and poverty have meant that addressing the needs of its hundreds of millions of poor and vulnerable citizens has preoccupied Indian policymakers since independence. Unsurprisingly, the
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Food wastage footprint: impacts on natural resources
This FAO study provides a global account of the environmental footprint of food wastage (i.e. both food loss and food waste) along the food supply chain, focusing on impacts on climate, water, land and
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Centre calls 2-day meeting to discuss food security law with states
To ensure food security law is rolled out smoothly in most states before the next general elections, the Centre has called a meeting of state food ministers and secretaries later this month. This is
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Chhattisgarh simplifies its food security law
Having enacted its own Food and Nutritional security Act, Chhattisgarh has now simplified procedures for its implementation so that the benefits percolate down to all beneficiaries who constitute about
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NFC depots empty, food crisis hits Bajura locals
Food shortage has taken its toll in Bajura after the Nepal Food Corporation (NFC) depots in the district ran out of provisions. The NFC depots at Martadi, the district headquarters, and Kolti ran low
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Bilateral trade and food security
The authors analyze the relationship between food security and trade, focusing on food importers’ exposure to sudden market failures from relying on a narrow range of international suppliers. They compute