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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Global food losses and food waste
<p>The study highlights the losses occurring along the entire food chain, and makes assessments of their magnitude. Further, it identifies causes of food losses and possible ways of preventing them. The results of the study suggest that roughly one-third of food produced for human consumption is lost
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Climate Change Has Spurred Food Prices: Study
Climate change cut global wheat and corn output by more than 3 percent over the past three decades compared to growth projections without a rise in temperatures, a study found on Friday.
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Exports can wait, need to ensure foodgrains to poor first: Minister
The Food Security Act will finally bring storage solutions for India
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Bottomline 10.1bn in world by 2100: UN
Africa's population rising fastest, might triple in this century Pressure on food, water to grow, other problems are likely The population of the world, long expected to stabilise just above nine billion in the middle of the century, will instead keep growing and may hit 10.1 billion by the year 2100, the United Nations projected in a report released on Tuesday. Growth in Africa remains so h
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Rural Bihars darkness cries for renewable power
The anxiety churning in 19-year-old Mohan Kumar Ram, a dalit student of B.Sc. first year, over the acutely dismal electricity scenario in Saran district is more refined than in Mohammad Roushan, 45, who runs a small tent-house business.
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PMs panel suggests per person PDS allocation
The Prime Minister-appointed panel on Food and Public Distribution System (F&PDS) headed by Deputy Chairman Planning Commission Montek Singh Ahluwalia has suggested that the current system of distributing PDS foodgrain per household should be replaced with per capita allocation. According to National Sample Survey (NSS) data, lower income households have more members per family than higher inco
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EGoM will discuss food bill today
An Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM) on food is scheduled to meet on Monday to discuss the proposed National Food Security Bill and take a view on the suggestions made by the Sonia Gandhi-headed National Advisory Council (NAC) and Rangarajan Committee. According to sources, the food ministry will place the reports of both the NAC and the Prime Minister
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Challenges of food security and its management 2011
<p>This position paper by the National Rainfed Area Authority attempts to address the challenges of food security through analysis of the present trend of growth in production, procurement and safe storage of different foodgrain crops, their future potential and possible impact on national food security of diversification into non-PDS, fruits, vegetables and other commercial crops.
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Approaching equity: Civil society inputs for the approach paper 12th Five Year Plan
<p>Non-governmental organizations and civil society organizations from across the country, representing various constituencies and theoretical approaches, collectively welcome the effort of the Planning Commission of India to make the planning process more responsive to citizens’ concerns for the 12th Five Year Plan Approach Paper.
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A green growth strategy for food and agriculture: preliminary report
<p>This preliminary report outlines a broad strategy for green growth in the food and agriculture sector.