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>
<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>
Mismanagement of rainwater is at the root of the problem, claims Rajendra Singh. He tells PERNEET SINGH of The Tribune that while people in urban areas are receiving water at subsidised rates, in rural areas people have inadequate access to water
The June 1 announcement by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, while releasing the Report Card for the first year of the second term of the United Progressive Alliance Government, that the Food Security Bill was under preparation and that the Bill would be placed in the public domain for scrutiny and wider consultation has raised hopes about early enactment of the law to ensure the people's right to fo
AMIT AGNIHOTRI India is eyeing the world and how. Growing food security concerns have forced the government to encourage Indian corporates to till foreign farmlands and bring the produce back home. Indian embassies in South America and Africa have apprised the government of the huge opportunities that await the Indian farm groups there.
Ravish Tiwari New Delhi: The formal announcement of the constitution of the National Advisory Council (NAC) appears to have unleashed some action in the bureaucracy to speed up work on the proposed National Food Security law.
If you think that climate change is merely a drastic change in weather, think again. Scientists at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (Icrisat) found that higher temperatures are making chickpea susceptible to new diseases.
The challenges that this world is facing in terms of food security and climate change have thrown up enough opportunities for the biotechnology sector across the world, especially in countries such as India, said Ms Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, Chairperson of Karnataka's Vision Group on Biotechnology and CMD of Biocon, at the inaugural session of the Bangalore Bio India in Bangalore on Wednesday.
The system that oversees global agriculture and food security needs an overhaul, says Joachim von Braun.
Restoring lost and damaged ecosystems-from forests and freshwaters to mangroves and wetlands-can trigger multi-million dollar returns, generate jobs and combat poverty according to this new UNEP. It draws on thousands of ecosystem restoration projects world-wide and showcases over 30 initiatives that are transforming the lives of communities and countries across the globe.
<p>The UN Department for Social and Economic Affairs (UNDESA) has released the World Economic and Social Survey (WEES) 2010, which indicates that many of the global crises in recent years – such as the food, fuel and financial crises – are to a large extent due to major systemic failures in the global economy and weaknesses in the mechanisms for global governance.
The potential of biotechnology to contribute to the reduction of hunger, malnutrition and poverty in Africa can only be realised with the presence of biosafety legislation. Recently, Kenya enacted the Biosafety Act 2008 after more than six years of stakeholder engagement with farmers, academicians, researchers, members of the community, funders, regulators, and private sector players.