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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Planning Commission’s poverty charade
Yojana Bhavan never seems to know how to count India’s poor. (Editorial)
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To stop leakage, Bihar govt plans ‘doorstep service’ of PDS ration
Come July, the Bihar government will be the first state to deliver ration to the doorsteps of 1.45 crore BPL families. The state government, which introduced ration coupons in 2007 and made it bar-coded
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Food Security Bill May See Some Changes
Parliamentary committee is likely to go for universalising distribution of grains to cover wider range of population The much-awaited Food Security Bill, which is being vetted by Parliamentary Standing
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Pesticides linked to honeybee decline
The first study conducted in a natural environment has shown that systemic pesticides damage bees' ability to navigate. Common crop pesticides have been shown for the first time to seriously harm bees
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Union Budget 2012: Pranab ups individual tax exemption limit to Rs 2 lakh, need speedy reforms
Presenting Union Budget 2012-13, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee marginally raised the individual income tax exemption limit to Rs 2 lakh and said tax on income up to Rs 10 lakh per annum would be 20
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Bengal govt to take on Centre on foodgrain allocation
KOLKATA, 15 MARCH: In the middle of the ruckus over the hike in passenger fares in the Railway Budget, the Trinamul Congress has fired another salvo, instructing its Parliamentary party to take up the
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Open Letter to the Prime Minister- Food Security Bill: A Simple Proposal
Dear Prime Minister, We welcome the tabling of a National Food Security Bill in the Lok Sabha as an important step towards the elimination of hunger and undernutrition in India. However, we feel that
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Healthcare through community participation- Role of ASHAs
<p>This study of the operation of the Accredited Social Health Activist programme of the National Rural Health Mission in one of the tribal blocks of Thane district in Maharashtra fi nds that incentives
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Patil aims to turn Chandigarh into a model solar city
Solar photovoltaic systems will soon be installed in all the government offices of the city while solar water heating systems are likely to be installed in all government residences. This was decided during
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Impacts of bioenergy on food security
FAO’s Bioenergy and Food Security Criteria and Indicators (BEFSCI) project has developed a set of indicators that be used to assess the impacts of bioenergy on food security at both national and levels.