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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Administering food security
Madhya Pradesh model offers a way forward The delay in the National Advisory Council (NAC) finalising its proposals for food security legislation seems to stem from the realisation that legislation is easy, execution is difficult.
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More foodgrains for poor at BPL rates
Gargi Parsai NEW DELHI: In the wake of the concern expressed by the Supreme Court at foodgrains rotting, the Union government on Thursday decided to release an additional 2.5 million tonnes of rice and wheat to the States for distribution to the poor under the Targeted Public Distribution System. The grain will be sold at Below the Poverty Line (BPL) rates in the next six months. It was a
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After SC rap, more foodgrain for poor at BPL rates
Responding to the Supreme Court order on rotting foodgrain, the government on Thursday decided to release an additional 2.5 million tonnes of foodgrain to the states for distribution among the poor. The additional release of foodgrain, however, will be only for the next six months.
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SC effect? 25 lakh tonnes of grain for poor as PR boost
Distribution Aimed At Helping UPA Overcome
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APL need to get subsidized food too?
Nitin Sethi | TNN New Delhi: The SC commissioners and the UPA government don
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On EGoM agenda today, grain at cheap rates for poor
Rapped by the Supreme Court for letting foodgrain rot, the government is considering options to ease pressure on Food Corporation of India (FCI) godowns by targeted distribution of additional stock at cheaper rates. An empowered Group of Ministers (eGoM), headed by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, will meet on Thursday to approve the Centre's counter-affidavit in the Supreme Court on creation
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New Food Rules
How will the proposed National Food Security Act impact livelihoods, cropping patterns and productivity?
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Govt: Will honour SC verdict on grains for poor
The government on Tuesday assured the Lok Sabha that it would honour the decision of the Supreme Court on free distribution of foodgrains to the poor. Replying to an impromptu debate initiated by Leader of the Opposition Sushma Swaraj on the issue, agriculture and food minister Sharad Pawar said,
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Give grain to poor... thats an order: SC
New Delhi: The Supreme Court slammed the government on Tuesday, expressing anguish at its casual attitude to reports of millions of tonnes of foodgrain rotting in the open when millions are going hungry. Rejecting agriculture minister Sharad Pawar
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'A biscuit a day...'
JAYA JUMRANI, Nikhila Gill As long as the poor remain malnourished, the malnourished will remain poor. Calorie deficits lower worker productivity, which in turn affects national output by as much as 4%. The government enacted the Food Security Act to alleviate hunger in India, a country with more hungry people than sub-Saharan Africa.