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>
Homegrown Amul brand is all set to touch the US $ 4 billion mark. The Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF) that markets country’s largest FMCG brand has clocked a provisional sales
India did not experience any food price spikes during 2007–08 when global food prices erupted. It was partly due to India’s ban on exports of wheat and common rice India resorted to. But the fiscal stimulus
New Delhi: The government doesn’t want to be legally obliged to provide subsidized rations to the poor — under the National Food Security Bill — when they need them most such as during droughts, floods, fire, cyclones, earthquakes and other natural calamities. In the proposed bill, the government has inserted a special provision to suspend its legal commitment to provide subsidized grains to the poor whenever it — along with the Planning Commission — decides that such calamities have occurred.
Does not bar any state or the Centre from continuing or launching other food-based schemes. The revised National Food Security Bill (NFSB) gives greater flexibility to states. For one, NFSB, cleared by
Faced with disturbing hunger and malnourished levels, India is expected to miss the crucial UN Millennium Development Goals (MDG), particularly those related to reduction in poverty, hunger and infant
New Delhi: The government has provided a back-door entry for contractors and the food industry to corner the lucrative ICDS (Integrated Child Development Services) food supply budget through the National
Leading economists who fear that the cost of the food security law on the exchequer would be much higher than estimated by the government have a seemingly unlikely ally — farmers’ groups. A couple of national-level farmers’ organisations have opposed the National Food Security Bill, saying it would “lead to nationalisation of agriculture by making the government the biggest buyer, hoarder and seller of foodgrains”.
This revised version of National Food Security Bill 2013 tabled in Parliament on March 22, 2013 gives legal entitlement to 67 per cent population for subsidised grains under the Targeted Public Distribution System.
With the revised National Food Security Bill set to be introduced in Parliament, the Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices (CACP) has warned the government's move to distribute highly subsidised foodgrains to two-thirds of the population as a legal entitlement that would create a serious crisis of ‘food management’in the country. CACP chairman Ashok Gulati told FE that in the absence of huge investments in irrigation, foodgrain storage facilities and improvement in rail infrastructure for transportation of grains, the implementation of the proposed food security legislation would not be sustainable in the long run.
Likely in Parliament this week; FoodMin draft accepted without changes; CCEA defers decision on levy sugar The Union Cabinet today cleared the revised and much-discussed National Food Security Bill (NFSB), paving the way for its introduction in the ongoing Budget session of Parliament. If enacted, this would provide a legal entitlement for cheap grain to about two-thirds of India’s population, at five kg monthly for each person. Rice will be provided at a uniform Rs 3 a kg (market price over Rs 20 a kg), wheat at Rs 2 a kg (market price Rs 16 a kg) and coarse cereals at Re 1 a kg.