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>
New Delhi The Centre’s plan to introduce the National Food Security Bill, which envisages distribution of subsidised foodgrains to more than 63% of the population, in the upcoming winter season of Parliament
The “Taste of India” has widened its frontiers even further. Having revolutionised the milk sector in many parts of the country, the owner of brand Amul, the Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation Ltd (GCMMF), on Wednesday started operations on the country’s biggest dairy plant in Dharuhera in Haryana. This dairy is expected to cater to the daily needs for milk and milk products of not only Haryana residents but those of Delhi and NCR too which is the world’s second largest urban aggregation by population.
New Delhi: UPA’s National Food Security Bill is facing resistance from not just opposition parties and other expected quarters such as the Trinamool Congress, but also a crucial ally, Samajwadi Party.
Ahead of its next big ticket social programme - the Food Security Bill - which it plans to implement before the 2014 general elections, the UPA government is busy sprucing up logistics and infrastructure
Food losses and waste amount to roughly $680 billion in industrialised countries and $310 billion in developing countries The total food wasted every year globally is enough to feed 500 million people without any extra burden on natural resources, a top official of United Nation's body Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has said. "Around one third of all the food produced in the world is lost or wasted every year," FAO Director General Jose Graziano da Silva said, adding the elimination of this wastage is an important step in achieving zero hunger.
Hunger and malnutrition are critical issues in the country and therefore, Delhi FoodBank, started in 2012 and run by the Aidmatrix Foundation, created a Food Bank to address the problem and reach out to
The government should not dictate whether they are to be served by the PDS or direct cash transfers. Everyone agrees that India needs to deliver social protection to the aam admi; the forthcoming Food
Social Distribution, Not Lack Of Food, Cause Of Hunger: UN New Delhi: Rising food prices during 2010-11 may have pushed three million Bangladeshis into poverty and kept eight million Indians from getting
On Tuesday, Bhojan Yatra, a campaign demanding a comprehensive food security bill, reached here after travelling through Bihar, Chhattisgarh and West Bengal. In a rally, organised from Bistupur to Ram Mandir maidan, Right to Food (RTF) activists demanded that the proposed National Food Security Bill (NFSB) give universal access to food instead of capping it at 67 per cent of the population.
New Delhi: India ranks 65th out of 79 countries on the Global Hunger Index, a new report by the International Food Policy Research Institute, Welthungerhilfe and Concern Worldwide has said. The report