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 Policy
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UN seeks to feed 500,000 school children in South Sudan as hunger bites
For 18-year-old Rebecca Adara, a plate of boiled wholegrain sorghum is enough to keep her strong and attentive all day round at school. "The feeding program has helped me to concentrate on my studies
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Nigeria: 'Crises in Rural Areas Threaten Progress in Hunger, Poverty Reduction'
The 2019 Global Food Policy Report (GFPR) released yesterday by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), has raised concerns about threats to progress recorded in improved food and nutrition
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2019 Global Food Policy Report
IFPRI’s flagship report reviews the major food policy issues, developments, and decisions of 2018, and considers challenges and opportunities for 2019. This year’s Global Food Policy Report highlights
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Kenya: Drought- Thousands Facing Starvation in Turkana
Kang'irisae Location Senior Chief John Ekwar and Kerio Delta MCA Peter Ekaru on Wednesday told the Nation that a man and a woman died last week as they sought food. "A woman from Lodoket-Engol village
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DRC: 260,000 children severely malnourished- UNICEF
In the corridors of the Kasai nutritional centre in the Democratic Republic of Congo, mothers and their children wait for doctors to take care of them. Susan and her daughter, Rosette escaped conflict
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Namibia: Food Bank to Be Rolled Out Nationally By June
THE food bank will be rolled out to all 14 regions of the country by June this year, poverty eradication minister Zephania Kameeta said in Windhoek last week. Kameeta said this when he received a donation
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FAO, ICBA ink agreements to save plant genetic resources, boost food security in world’s marginal areas
The Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, Dr. José Graziano da Silva, and Director General of the International Center for Biosaline Agriculture (ICBA),
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Food = Nutrition, nature and livelihoods
We need a model of agricultural growth that will value local good food production and not have to first "chemicalise" and then learn better Poorer countries have health problems because of lack of
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Spectre of famine looms in Zimbabwe as crops fail following erratic rainfalls during agricultural season
A disaster is looming in Zimbabwe following a severe drought that has left most of the planted maize crop for the current season either moisture-stressed or being declared a write-off. Drives along
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Over 8 million Ethiopians need food aid due to violence, drought-government
More than eight million people need food aid in Ethiopia, a 5 percent rise from last year, due to a surge in violence that has triggered mass displacement as well as the lingering effects of past droughts,