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: India ranked 66th in the 2012 Global Food Security Index, released by American chemical company DuPont on Wednesday. Based on a survey of 105 countries, Index ranks India much lower than China,
Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government today approved procurement of 30 lakh tonnes of rice during 2012-13 through different agencies other than Food Corporation of India (FCI) and announced Rs 1250 as the
Vadodara: The Amul model of co-operatives will travel from the land of Modi to Mamta’s bastion. The Kaira District Cooperative Milk Producers Union Limited (KDCMPUL), popularly known as Amul Dairy, is setting up a dairy plant in Kolkata with an investment of over Rs 100 crore. Interestingly, in 2008 when Gujarat’s dairy union controlled by Congressmen had started the experiment to replicate the Amul model of co-operatives in West Bengal (WB) by collecting milk locally, there were apprehensions about the success of White Revolution in WB, which was then the red bastion.
Jaipur: The UPA’s mid-day meal programme in Rajasthan is in tatters. The recently released Monitoring Institutions (MIs) report has revealed glaring anomalies in implementation of the scheme with many children in the state not getting any benefits and some actually going hungry. According to a report, the scheme is not being implemented on a regular basis in some schools in the Pali district. The findings, based on figures between April 2011 and September 2011, were shared recently by the Union HRD ministry.
New Delhi The government is unlikely to take up the National Food Security Bill in the winter season of Parliament as the panel examining the proposed law had to be reconstituted as its tenure had lapsed. The National Food Security Bill, 2011, which was introduced in the Lok Sabha by food minister KV Thomas in the winter session last year, was referred to the Parliamentary Standing Committee chaired by Vilas Muttemwar for approval.
The National Federation of Indian Women (NFIW) has demanded that the Centre should ensure the passage of a comprehensive Food Security Act by making it a fundamental right. Various units of the Federation across the country held dharnas and public meetings observing September 18 as “Demand Day”. In the Capital, a protest meeting was organised in front of Krishi Bhavan. NIFW general secretary Annie Raja said: “Even after three years of its rule, the present Government has failed to get the Food Security Bill passed which it had promised to do within 100 days. The Government clearly lacks the political will and social commitment which is the only reason to justify this delay.”
A cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Shri Shivraj Singh Chouhan today took several important decisions including endorsement of Health Service Investment Policy and Madhya Pradesh Agriculture Trade
World leaders have shown prudence in the face of rising food prices by avoiding harmful steps such as export embargoes, the United States said on Monday after France called an emergency meeting of G20
Report says 10% objective competes with food production and should be scrapped in effort to reduce food price spikes European targets to replace fossil fuels with biofuels are contributing to spikes
The department of consumer affairs recently mandated compulsory labelling of packaged genetically modified food. Though segregation and testing to ensure compliance is a great challenge under Indian conditions,