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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43 pc families dont have ration cards: Study
BHUBANESWAR: ELIMINATING hunger from the State seems a distant possibility if the results of the latest survey report
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State BJP focussing on rural areas
Buoyed by the visit of the central leaders, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Assam Pradesh is concentrating on improving its image in rural Assam right now as it is almost final that the saffron party is going to fight it out alone in the coming Assembly elections. It needs to be mentioned here that the party has already launched its election campaign and the rebuff from the AGP party who chos
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KMSS demands solution of Majulis issues
KAMALABARI
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Assam to produce more rice than it needs this yr
<p>ASSAM is all set to become a rice-surplus state. The state’s foodgrain production has jumped in FY10 and the trend is continuing in FY 11 as well. Talking to ET, Assam’s agriculture minister Pramila Rani Brahma said: “The state produced 40.70 lakh tonne of rice in 2008-09. The production in 2009-10, under assessment, is likely to be 42 lakh tonne.
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Tussle goes on over food security Bill, Centre chooses to be silent
Nistula Hebbar New Delhi: The Centre and National Advisory Council
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FCI goes online for stock accounting
Dilip Kumar Jha / Mumbai September 28, 2010, 0:58 IST Begins using TCS software for daily update of grain movement. Changing a 46-year-old system, the Food Corporation of India (FCI), the public sector grain procurement agency, has decided to go online to make operations more transparent.
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NAC close to finalising Food Security Bill
Smita Gupta New Delhi: The Sonia Gandhi-led National Advisory Council (NAC) may be close to finalising the contentious Food Security Bill when it meets here on September 24. Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia and officials from Ministries concerned, including Women and Child Development Secretary, will be present to try and help bridge the differences between the NAC
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Unwelcome surprise
In pushing for a greatly truncated PDS, the Food Security Bill proposed by the NAC, which has many right-to-food activists, undermines the PDS itself. ENSURING food security was the big promise of United Progressive Alliance-2.
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Millennium Development Goals: challenges and the way ahead
Kofi Annan People often ask me what I consider to be the highlight of my career with the United Nations. While there were many wonderful moments, hosting the largest collection of world leaders ever assembled to sign the Millennium Declaration in New York is certainly among the top. The can-do-spirit in the room was infectious.
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F.D.A. Hearing Focuses on the Labeling of Genetically Engineered Salmon
So what do you call a salmon that is genetically engineered to grow fast? If it is allowed to be sold in supermarkets, some consumer and environmental groups want it to be labeled as just that