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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Crop prospects and food situation 2012
FAO forecast that 2012 world wheat production will be the second highest on record at 690 million tonnes and also announced that international food prices rose one percent in February — the second increase
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Achieving food security in the face of climate change
The Commission on Sustainable Agriculture and Climate Change has released its final report proposing policy responses to the challenges of feeding a world confronted with climate change, population growth,
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Approaches to food security in Brazil, China, India, Malaysia, Mexico, and Nigeria: lessons for Developing Countries
Food security has re-emerged as one of the central issues on the global agenda since the 2008 food, fuel, and financial crisis. After decades of neglect, the crisis has refocused attention of national
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Audit Report (Civil) , Himachal Pradesh for the Year 2010-2011
In this report for the year 2010-11 CAG has slammed Himachal Pradesh government for not achieving the targets on sewage treatment, as the state treated only 12 per cent of the total sewage generated in Shimla.
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State grew by 9.6 per cent during FY ’11: Governor
Haryana Governor Jagannath Pahadia today asserted that the effects of the state’s economic rise were being felt across the nation. Addressing the Budget session of the Haryana Assembly on its opening day,
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Quality seeds must for food security
CUTTACK: Assistant Director-General of Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) Dr RP Dua on Tuesday stressed the need for provisioning quality seeds to the farmers for achieving the goals of food
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Reforming or replacing the public distribution system with cash transfers
The targeted public distribution system, intended to provide subsidised food to poor households, is the largest welfare programme in India, with a budget corresponding to about 1% of the net national product.
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500m children 'at risk of effects of malnutrition'
Half a billion children could grow up physically and mentally stunted over the next 15 years because they do not have enough to eat, the charity Save the Children says in a new report. It says much
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Tripura to get PDS rice via Bangladesh
Exactly a month after Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s visit, her government has allowed transportation of PDS rice to Tripura through her country. The Bangladesh government has approved the
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It will not stop at Rs 60,000 crore
How economically sustainable is food subsidy? The cost could even be double of what the government estimates. Food deprivation and malnutrition are completely unacceptable and everything has to be done