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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PDS forever?
<p>There is a case to be made for cash transfers replacing the sale of food through the public distribution system. This article argues that cash transfers offer many advantages over in-kind food transfers, and that their design can address potential pitfalls pointed out by critics.
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Trends in diversion of grain from the public distribution system
<p>This paper estimates the proportion of grain diverted from the public distribution system to the open market in the past decade by matching official offtake figures with household purchase reported by the National Sample Survey. At the all-India level, diversion of pds grain remains a serious issue; however there are interesting contrasts at the state level.
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NGOs up in arms against Sheilas cash-for-ration plan
New Delhi: In a city set for municipal polls early next year, the Delhi government
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World Bank prescription for PDS restructure
A World Bank report on India
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Differences on Food Bill being resolved: Thomas
New Delhi The government seems to be finally working out the modalities of the proposed National Food Security Bill after examining the views of National Advisory Council (NAC) and the committee headed by C Rangarajan, the chairman of the Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council. Food and civil supplies minister KV Thomas on Wednesday met NAC chairperson Sonia Gandhi for giving the final touc
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Shrink PDS & rework NREGA, World Bank tells India
New Delhi A World Bank review of India
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Expand rural poverty schemes for urban poor: World Bank
The World Bank has asked policymakers in India to stop neglecting urban poverty and expand the scope of some rural flagship schemes to urban areas. It has called for a shift in focus in policy to address poverty as demographic changes and intense migration have dampened poverty reduction rates in urban areas. In a report called
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Food ministry against CACPs proposal on paddy MSP hike
New Delhi The food ministry has opposed the proposal of the Commission for Agriculture Costs and Prices (CACP) to hike the support price of paddy by R160 per quintal to R1,160 per quintal for 2011-12 crop year. Paddy minimum support price (common grade) was at R1,000 per quintal last year.
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Check Govt grain buys, use cash transfers or food coupons: study
Massive grain procurement to meet the requirements under the proposed national food security law could drive out the private sector and have larger implications on the state of the domestic procurement market, a study on food and nutritional security has warned. Apart from impacting exports and cereal price in the open market, rising public procurement will only make it costly to buy, store, tran
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Distribute foodgrain to BPL families: SC
The Supreme Court on Tuesday expressed anguish over the high rate of malnourishment-related deaths in the country even as the Centre said that 50 lakh additional tonnes of PDS grains should be distributed among below poverty level (BPL) families by next two weeks. A bench of justices Dalveer Bhandari and Deepak Verma repeated its earlier stance that if godowns were overflowing or foodgrains wer