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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Reflections on the global food crisis
The dramatic surge in food prices from 2005 to 2008 seriously threatened the world's poor, who struggle to buy food even under normal circumstances, and led to protests and riots in the developing world. The crisis eventually receded, but such surges could recur unless steps are taken to prevent them.
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Urban agriculture in low income households of Harare: An adaptive response to economic crisis
Urban farming has for years served as a vital input in the livelihood strategies of urban households in Zimbabwe.
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Food security to cost Rs 72,000 crore
The National Advisory Council (NAC) recommendation to guarantee foodgrain to two-thirds of the country
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SC pulls up Centre for poor distribution of foodgrains
Noting that even 10 years after it ordered that the country can ill-afford to have its surplus foodgrains eaten by rats in government godowns or dumped in sea while the poor go hungry, the Supreme Court on Friday asked the Attorney General to respond to the continued inadequate disbursement of foodgrains to Below Poverty Line (BPL) families.
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Denial of grain to 7cr poor families: SC seeks answers
New Delhi: The SC on Friday wanted to know Centre
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The political economy of hunger in 21st century India
It is apparent that despite the persisting food insecurity of the bulk of the population and the near-emergency with respect to the nutrition of children, women and other vulnerable groups, the Government of India is still not taking the job of ensuring universal food security with sufficient seriousness.
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Pawar plays the grain game
Minister breaks rank to voice dissent over Food Security Bill target. Sharad Pawar In the first sign of dissent within the ruling UPA government, Agriculture & Food Minister Sharad Pawar on Wednesday indicated that covering two-thirds of the population under the proposed Food Security Bill was not feasible. The veteran Maratha leader told the Economic Editors
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Taking on NAC, babu calls for PDS wind-up
Economic Adviser Bats For Food Coupons New Delhi: While the Sonia Gandhi-led National Advisory Council
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Fix what is broken
<p>The high corridors of the nation are abuzz with talk about how much food should be given to the country’s poor as a right. Should it be 25 kg of rice or 35 kg of wheat a month per person at highly subsidized rates? Read this latest blog by Sunita Narain, Director of CSE.</p>
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NAC recommendations on Food Security Bill
The story,