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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Demand and supply of cereals in India: 2010-2025
This paper attempts to project the future supply and demand up to the year 2025 for rice and wheat, the two main cereals cultivated and consumed in India. A review of studies that forecast the supply and
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Rice trade in the ‘rice bowl of Bengal’: Burdwan 1880–1947
Burdwan district, with its advantageous position in transportation network and good resource endowments, spontaneously responded to the commercialisation of agriculture. Rice received considerable commercial
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Now, call centre to address PDS issues - Consumers to get updates on grievance redress
Ranchi, Dec. 25: First power supply, then public distribution system (PDS). Close on the heels of launching a call centre to redress grievances against power supply, the state government is now working
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Decentralised procurement and universalised PDS
Decentralisation of food procurement could facilitate universalisation of the public distribution system under the proposed National Food Security Act. Non-green revolution crops such as millets, coarse
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Food Security Bill: Simpler the better
The draft Food Bill is in a mess; a simple solution is available to make it an effective legislation. (Editorial)
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Govt tables Food Bill in House
The National Food Security Bill — promised by the Congress in its 2009 General Elections manifesto to provide legal foodgrain entitlement to over 63 per cent of population — was introduced by Food Minister
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Jaya Opposes Food Bill, Says it’s ‘Inaccurate’
Odisha CM Patnaik wants Centre to bring all poor within the programme’s purview After senior Union Cabinet ministers raised doubts over the National Food Security Bill, it is the turn of state chief ministers
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Rs 1189cr budget tabled
Ranchi, Dec. 20: The state government today tabled the second supplementary budget to the tune of Rs 1189.24 crore, earmarking the highest sums for food and civil supplies and the planning and development
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Can we Afford 6-Lakh-Cr Food Subsidy Bill in 3 Yrs?
The biggest experiment in the world to provide food security to the poor would be successful here only if the government finds ways to deliver it at a much lower cost The National Food Security Bill (NFSB)
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Creation of food safety authority urged
A draft of the proposed Nepal Food Safety Act has envisioned establishment of an independent food safety authority which will implement life, food and consumer rights as fundamental rights. The draft