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 Security
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Employment in lean seasons
In the general election 0f 2009, India
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Hunger and climate change
There are more than one billion hungry people in the world
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FAO profile for climate change
With this Profile for Climate Change, FAO outlines its priorities for its current and future work on climate change. FAO
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Mountains and climate change: from understanding to action
Mountains are among the regions most affected by climate change. The implications of climate change will reach far beyond mountain areas, as the contributions in the present publication prepared for the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in 2009 show. Themes discussed are water, glaciers and permafrost, hazards, biodiversity, food security, and migration.
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Can organic and resource-conserving agriculture improve livelihoods?
This paper assesses the capacity of organic and resource-conserving agriculture (ORCA) to improve the livelihoods of poor smallholders in Africa. Distinguishing among the different practices related to ORCA is sometimes difficult because
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Climate change: Research to meet the challenges facing fisheries and aquaculture
Climate change poses new challenges to the sustainability of fisheries and aquaculture systems, with serious implications for the 520 million people who depend on them for their livelihoods and the nearly 3 billion people for whom fish is an important source of animal protein.
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Climate change implications for fisheries and aquaculture
Marine capture fisheries already facing multiple challenges due to overfishing, habitat loss and weak management are poorly positioned to cope with new problems stemming from climate change, an FAO study suggests. Small island developing states
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Sustainable groundwater development through integrated watershed management for food security
This paper discusses the results from on-farm community watersheds through groundwater management as the drivers for sustainable management of watersheds dry land areas. The issues of sustainable development and management of the groundwater resource through integrated watershed management (IWM) approach are also dealt relative to food production and security.
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A feast of millets
Cities have forgotten the amazing foods and cuisines they used to once enjoy. To remind them the Millet Network of India (MINI) and Kheti Virasat Mission organised the first ever exhibition of millets at the Press Club in Chandigarh called Bebe di Rasoi (Grandmother
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Climate change and the right to food: a comprehensive study
Climate change and the policies instituted to combat it are affecting the realization of the right to food in myriad, often unnoticed ways.