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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We'll respect court decision on free grain for poor: Pawar
Aarti Dhar NEW DELHI: The Union government will respect the Supreme Court's decision on free distribution of grain to the poor, Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar said in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday.
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It was an order, not suggestion: court
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday made it clear that its August 12 directive to distribute grain at
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Van Samitis to be associated with public distribution system: Minister
Bhopal, Aug 30: Forest Minister Shri Sartaj Singh has asked the officers to find out the possibilities of associating the forest committees with public distribution system. The Forest Minister was reviewing the department's activities at the office of the Chief Conservator of Forests, Shahdol, on Saturday.
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Inform us of steps to preserve grain: court
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the Union government to inform it of the steps taken to preserve the remaining grain procured. Hearing a petition filed by the People's Union for Civil Liberties relating to the streamlining of the PDS, a Bench of Justices Dalveer Bhandari and Deepak Verma, quoting the court commissioner's report, said 50,000 tonnes of wheat had deteriorated, and wa
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Food security in India: performance, challenges and policies
This paper examines performance, challenges, and policies in food security in terms of availability, access, and absorption or nutrition.
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Supplementary nutrition to women and children - A situational analysis of anganwadis in tribal areas of Gujarat
<p>This article reports findings from a survey of anganwadis, undertaken in the tribal region of Gujarat. It was found that services were poorer in the more backward and distant hilly areas than in the plain areas of the region. The coverage of population by anganwadis was not uniform and was disproportionately divided even within the same village.
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Household food security in urban Tamil Nadu: A survey in Vellore
A door-to-door survey of 130 households in an urban area in Vellore district, Tamil Nadu was done and information on food security status was collected using the United States Department of Agriculture
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Using value chain analysis to increase the impact of urban farming
This paper summarises work attempting to answer two apparently simple questions: Can urban agriculture reduce urban poverty? And, if it can, in what ways can poverty be reduced? It also explores the role of value chain analysis in understanding better the role of urban agriculture.
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The role of farmer organisations in marketing periurban 'safe vegetables' in Vietnam
In Vietnam, urban agriculture still represents a substantial share of food supply and employment. Its contribution to the food needs of the entire population of Hanoi was estimated at 44 per cent in 2002 (Mai et al., 2004). In the same year, over 70 per cent of leafy vegetables originated within a 30 km production radius of the city (Moustier et al., 2004).
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Is hunger in the world on the rise?
In its latest report on food insecurity, the FAO asserted that 915 million people were undernourished in 2008, and the figure is estimated to rise to 1.02 billion in 2009. The alarming numbers raise the twin questions of how the estimates are derived and how reliable they are.