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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Madhya Pradesh's high-tech solution for PDS
The state links the PDS system with controversial unique identity project to plug leakages in food supply. But loopholes remain, Latha Jishnu and Jyotika Sood report in Down To Earth.
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SC: No one must die of starvation
New Delhi: In an attempt to make right to food meaningful, the Supreme Court on Wednesday asked its highpowered committee (HPC) to decide within three weeks whether cheap food grains under Public Distribution
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Flood hits 14 lakh people, 1109 villages marooned
Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government on Monday stepped up air-dropping of food packets as flood situation continued to be grim with Mahanadi river flowing above the danger mark in delta region, affecting
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Private Players to Help Govt Stem Rot in Godowns Soon
EGoM nod expected shortly for new food storage policy with thrust on public-pvt partnership The government is ready with a blueprint to build grain silos through public-private partnerships to meet the
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NGO opposes replacement of PDS with cash
The Delhi government's scheme replacing the public distribution system with cash transfers is a "total fraud" as the poor would not benefit from receiving a fixed sum when the prices of essential items
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The PDS is not failing or ailing
A survey conducted across nine states by the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi and Allahabad University suggests that the much maligned system has revived, prodded by politics, good governance and
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In The World's Breadbasket, Climate Change Feeds Some Worry
The United States, the breadbasket and supplier of last resort for a hungry world, has been such an amazing food producer in the last half-century that most Americans take for granted annual bounteous
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The PDS in rural Orissa: Against the grain?
A report from a sample survey of the functioning of the public distribution system in 12 villages in two districts in Orissa, a state usually associated with a poor PDS. While there are errors in exclusion
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Wheat price inflation in recent times: Causes, lessons and new perspectives
In this paper we demonstrate that the high level of wheat procurement during 2008-09 and 2009-10 at a higher minimum support price was necessitated by the difficult circumstances that the government faced,
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LF govt lost over `133 cr in food subsidy: CAG
KOLKATA, 1 SEPT: The ‘discrimination’ by the Centre vis-à-vis the public distribution system (PDS) has always been a major plank for the erstwhile Left Front government in the state. But the report