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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Improving food security for vulnerable communities in Nepal
<p>This case study describes the struggle faced by poor communities in<br /> highland Nepal to produce and buy sufficient food. It explores how Oxfam is working with local organizations to provide sustainable long-term and short-term responses to the problems of food insecurity and climate change in the region.</p>
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Criticality of commons - Role of forest as food resource
It is important to understand the strong linkage that exists between food security, forest and resource conservation. Studies conducted over a decade in India clearly point to the fact that a majority
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States Should Pay Cash If They Fail to Provide Grain: Draft Food Bill
The draft Food Security Bill makes it compulsory for state governments to pay a food security allowance to targeted sections in case of failure to supply foodgrain through a sweeping welfare scheme targeted at nearly three-fourths of the population. The amount will be decided by the central government.
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Counting Poorly
The Planning Commission’s definition of poverty is inexplicableIn the urban sprawl that is Delhi, as in any other metro in the country, earning no more than Rs 25 per day with a family to support would
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Global food price increases and volatility
Global food prices continue to rise month after month, driven by longer-term and more recent trends. Financialisation is an important factor among the recent trends. There is strong evidence of correlation
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The sensitivity of food security in India to alternate estimation methods
There are a number of assumptions required to estimate actual calories consumed from expenditure data regarding calories contained in processed foods and meals eaten outside the household. Ideally, estimates
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Fudging parameter to reduce number of poor
New Delhi: How does the government manage to keep the poverty line so low? Rather simple for the statisticians
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Poverty packet worth 20 for Montek
NAC Members Protest Against Plan Panel
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A case for reframing the cash transfer debate in India
<p>Cash transfers are now suggested by many as a silver bullet for addressing the problems that plague India’s anti-poverty programmes. This article argues instead for evidence-based policy and informed public debate to clarify the place, prospects and problems of cash transfers in India.
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Cash transfers as the silver bullet for poverty reduction: A sceptical note
<p>The current perception that cash transfers can replace public provision of basic goods and services and become a catch-all solution for poverty reduction is false. Where cash transfers have helped to reduce poverty, they have added to public provision, not replaced it.