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 Supreme Court slammed the government on Tuesday, expressing anguish at its casual attitude to reports of millions of tonnes of foodgrain rotting in the open when millions are going hungry. Rejecting agriculture minister Sharad Pawar
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">This paper by Kaushik Basu, Chief Economic Adviser in the Ministry of Finance presents fundamentals of our foodgrain market and policy that leads to this situation and also suggests policies for rectifying this. Analyses some broad principles of economics that have been violated in the existing strategy and explains why we have not had adequate success in enriching farmers and protecting consumers</span>.</p>
Union Food Processing Industries Minister Subodh Kant Sahai said on Tuesday that the National Institute of Food Technology Entrepreneurship and Management (NIFTEM) is being set up on 100 acres of land at Kundli in Sonepat, Haryana.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday rapped Union Food Minister Sharad Pawar for interpreting its judicial
Aarti Dhar NEW DELHI: The Union government will respect the Supreme Court's decision on free distribution of grain to the poor, Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar said in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday.
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday made it clear that its August 12 directive to distribute grain at
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the Union government to inform it of the steps taken to preserve the remaining grain procured. Hearing a petition filed by the People's Union for Civil Liberties relating to the streamlining of the PDS, a Bench of Justices Dalveer Bhandari and Deepak Verma, quoting the court commissioner's report, said 50,000 tonnes of wheat had deteriorated, and wa
This paper examines performance, challenges, and policies in food security in terms of availability, access, and absorption or nutrition.
A door-to-door survey of 130 households in an urban area in Vellore district, Tamil Nadu was done and information on food security status was collected using the United States Department of Agriculture
The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) has released a report, with the Asia Society, by a high-level Task Force on Food Security and Sustainability in Asia titled "Never an Empty Bowl: Sustaining Food Security in Asia." The report presents steps that governments, businesses, NGOs and regional and international organizations can take, highlighting the potential for public-private partner