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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Let not grains rot in godowns while millions cry for food
BHUBANESWAR: A large number of food rights activists staged a protest outside the godown of the Food Corporation of India in Rourkela on Sunday demanding equitable distribution of food grains and universalisation and decentralisation of the public distribution system (PDS).
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Right to Health, Right to Food next on Centre's agenda, says Pranab
<br /><br />Ananya Dutta<br /><br />Centre will provide 25 kg of rice or wheat at predetermined price of Rs. 3 per kg: Minister<br /><br />Indian economic policy has flexibility and that flexibility has been provided by Congress<br />
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Fires in Russia, wheat production, and volatile markets: Reasons to panic?
Recent events in Russia, one of the largest suppliers of wheat in the world, have raised concern about the current and future price of wheat and wheat-based products. This article briefly examines the issue and determines if there is in fact cause for serious alarm.
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20 lakh BPL card-holders to get free kits
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Centre to expand PDS cover
Gargi Parsai Based on Tendulkar Committee's poverty projections for 2011
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A Nation Forced To Go On DISTRESS DIET
Nearly 15 months of double-digit food inflation has led most Indians to make painful cuts in their daily meals. TOI finds poor families across the country being forced into dietary choices that are sowing the seeds of an acutely malnourished future generation Rukmini Shrinivasan | TIG
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Conflicting signals on inclusion of non-poor in PDS
Gargi Parsai
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Why not abolish PDS for APL families?
NEW DELHI: In what could put the government on a politically difficult turf, the Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the Centre to answer within two weeks why cheap ration under public distribution system (PDS) to above poverty line card holders should not be abolished and the BPL category enlarged.
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FCI paints a bleak picture
Chandigarh, 27 July: Antiquated food storage methods and technologies have been costing India dearly. The chairman of the Food Corporation of India (FCI), Mr Siraj Hussain, admits that food grains worth Rs 50,000 crore is wasted every year. This comes roughly to 20 per cent of the total food produced by the country.
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Stop subsidised grain to APL families: SC to govt
Indu Bhan New Delhi: Expressing concern over tonnes of foodgrain rotting in the open, the Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the Centre to consider disbanding subsidised grains distributed to Above Poverty Line (APL) families and instead restrict the facility only to Below Poverty Line (BPL) populace.