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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Wasted: How America is losing up to 40 percent of its food from farm to fork to landfill
Getting food from the farm to our fork eats up 10 percent of the total U.S. energy budget, uses 50 percent of U.S. land, and swallows 80 percent of all freshwater consumed in the United States. Yet, 40
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Net food-importing developing countries - Who they are, and policy options for global price volatility
This new paper by ICTSD discusses net food-importing developing countries – the most vulnerable – in the light of the recent commodity price spikes: who they are, and policy options for dealing with global price volatility.
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Feeding a thirsty world: challenges and opportunities for a water and food secure future
This report presents the latest thinking and new approaches to emerging and persistent challenges to achieve food security in the 21st century. It focuses on critical issues that have received less attention
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The water and food nexus: trends and development of the research landscape
The report, “The Water and Food Nexus: Trends and Development of the Research Landscape” analysed the major trends in water and food-related article output at international, national and institutional
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Govt plans Rs 600/month food subsidy
To reach out to the poor, an ambitious scheme called ‘Dilli Annashree Yojna’ is to be launched to provide a food subsidy of Rs 600 per month to two lakh vulnerable household not covered by BPL and Antyodaya
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Food Bill: Govt looking at flexible plan, may exclude 33% population
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday gave further momentum to an alternative proposal that seeks to replace rigid provisions in the National Food Security Bill with “liberal” options that will give
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Food prices on the rise amid US drought
With more than half the continental US experiencing a severe drought, global food prices have skyrocketed in recent days. Separately, long-term projections just released by the UN Food and Agriculture
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State govt sat on food grains
KOLKATA, 10 JULY: The state government distributed only 12.7 per cent of the food grain "specially" allotted by the Centre for the 10 backward districts in the state in the last fiscal year, said Mr KV
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SHGs to run ration shops
KOLKATA, 4 JULY: The state government is planning to engage self-help groups and co-operatives to run ration shops, state food and supply minister Jyotipriya Mullick said today at Writers’ Buildings. He
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PDS benefits to 5,000 ban-hit fishermen
The State Government has decided to extend public distribution system (PDS) doles to over 5,000 families of traditional marine fishermen living along the Paradip coast. The condition of fishermen living