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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Rotten wheat finds way through PDS
Fatehabad, August 20 Complaints of fungus-infested wheat being sold to the poor through the public distribution system (PDS) have come from Nadel village in this district.
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MPs way to fight PDS pilferage: Grain on doorsteps
Milind Ghatwai To remedy pilferage and corruption in the public distribution system (PDS), Madhya Pradesh has decided to introduce a pilot scheme to deliver cheap foodgrain on the beneficiaries' doorsteps. The scheme will begin on Mahatma Gandhi's birth anniversary on October 2 in a tehsil in tribal-dominated Mandla district.
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An embarrassment of riches
End government dominance in food procurement and stocks Business Standard / New Delhi August 20, 2010, 0:59 IST The Union government has been widely criticised for letting foodgrain rot in its godowns, while food prices soar and millions remain underfed. In its defence the government has spoken about the fiscal cost of selling these stocks.
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Implementing SC's order on free grain not possible: Pawar
The government today said it was not possible to implement the Supreme Court order which asked the Centre to distribute foodgrain for free to the poor instead of allowing it to rot due to lack of storage facility. Sharad Pawar
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Pakistan flood homeless toll put at over 4 million
More than four million Pakistanis have been made homeless by nearly three weeks of floods, the United Nations said on Thursday, making the critical task of securing greater amounts of aid more urgent. The UN had earlier said that two million people had lost their homes in the worst floods in Pakistan
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Sharad Pawar not in tune with Supreme Court, says free grains not feasible
Union agriculture minister Sharad Pawar on Thursday made it clear that free distribution of food grains among the poor, as suggested by the Supreme Court (SC) is
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Food crisis looms large over NE
GUWAHATI, Aug 19: Assam and other northeastern States seem to be entering a phase of severe shortage of essential commodities as the Contractor Federation of FCI (North East Zone) has categorically said that its indefinite strike will continue until a positive response comes from the authorities to the demands of the FCI contractors.
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State introduces bio-metric ration card on pilot basis
Rayagada: In a bid to strengthen the public distribution system (PDS), the Odisha government on Wednesday introduced multi model bio-metric ration card in Rayagada district. Chief minister Naveen Patnaik inaugurated launching of the new model, developed by United Nation World Food Programme (UNWFP) and implemented by the state's food and civil supplies and consumer welfare department. More t
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Thinking clearly about inflation
While the measured response of the government to overall inflation is to be admired, its performance with respect to food-price inflation cannot escape criticism, says Arvind Panagariya THE subject of inflation, which occupied the media and the politicians in 2008 until the global financial crisis put an abrupt end to it, has returned to the centre stage of the policy debate.
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Ram Roti Yojana to provide full food per person at Rs 5
Bhopal, Aug 17: It is a tough task to provide good low-cost food to poor persons in these times of dearness. In view of this, Urban Administration and Development Minister Shri Babulal Gaur has instructed to provide full food to poor persons at the rate of Rs 5 per person through urban bodies.