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>
Money to be used to strengthen distribution channels for successful implementation of Food Security Bill Signalling its commitment to roll out the Food Security Bill in the next fiscal, finance minister
FDI in retail alone won’t suffice, we need complementary policies in agriculture to increase supplies. Food price inflation, and inflation in general, has become less of an issue. But it isn’t an issue
The targeted public distribution system, intended to provide subsidised food to poor households, is the largest welfare programme in India, with a budget corresponding to about 1% of the net national product.
“Food security and environment sustainability are the major challenges faced across the globe and collaborative efforts between countries alone will solve these problems,” says John J. Kennelly, Dean Faculty of Agriculture, Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Alberta (UA), Canada. He was speaking to The Hindu after visiting tribal villages in Valappur Panchayat atop Kolli Hills in Namakkal district on Wednesday, where the university and the M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, India, is jointly implementing the ‘Alleviating Poverty and Malnutrition in Agro Biodiversity Hot Spots.'
SHILLONG: Taking cognizance over malpractices prevailing in the Public Distribution System (PDS) in the State, the Government is planning to computerize the whole system to check the malaise. To achieve this objective, the State Government has already submitted a Detailed Project Report (DPR) amounting to Rs 43 crore for computerization of the Public Distribution System (PDS) to the Central Government.
Exactly a month after Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s visit, her government has allowed transportation of PDS rice to Tripura through her country. The Bangladesh government has approved the
How economically sustainable is food subsidy? The cost could even be double of what the government estimates. Food deprivation and malnutrition are completely unacceptable and everything has to be done
Even as the UPA government struggles to bridge differences between key UPA constituents on the need to usher in the Food Security Act — with cost of implementing it and revamping the Public Distribution
GUWAHATI: Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Sunday stressed the need for integration and coordination of different departments and organisations to make the state secure in food grain production.
As states, irrespective of their political affiliations, raise objections to the proposed Food Security Act, the food ministry on Thursday said it would analyse all suggestions and refer these to a standing