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>
Rayagada: In a bid to strengthen the public distribution system (PDS), the Odisha government on Wednesday introduced multi model bio-metric ration card in Rayagada district. Chief minister Naveen Patnaik inaugurated launching of the new model, developed by United Nation World Food Programme (UNWFP) and implemented by the state's food and civil supplies and consumer welfare department. More t
While the measured response of the government to overall inflation is to be admired, its performance with respect to food-price inflation cannot escape criticism, says Arvind Panagariya THE subject of inflation, which occupied the media and the politicians in 2008 until the global financial crisis put an abrupt end to it, has returned to the centre stage of the policy debate.
Bhopal, Aug 17: It is a tough task to provide good low-cost food to poor persons in these times of dearness. In view of this, Urban Administration and Development Minister Shri Babulal Gaur has instructed to provide full food to poor persons at the rate of Rs 5 per person through urban bodies.
The Essential Commodities Act, 1955 was last amended in December, 2009 by the Essential Commodities (Amendment and Validation) Act, 2009 to remove the ambiguity as regards the factors that should be taken into consideration by the Central Government for the determination of the price of levy sugar and to validate actions taken under the principal Act.
Viveat Susan Pinto / Mumbai August 16, 2010, 0:39 IST<br /><br />Paves way for their use in carbonated drinks<br />
To Check Wastage, Suggests Increase In Storage Facilities & Hike In Allocation To BPL<br />TIMES NEWS NETWORK<br />
The government is using the proposed National Food Security Act as an excuse not to distribute grain to the needy even as tonnes rot away in its warehouses<br />Nitin Sethi | TNN<br /><br />
J. Venkatesan<br /><br />New Delhi: To deal with the problem of foodgrains rotting in godowns, the Supreme Court on Thursday asked the Centre to consider distributing them at
It is important to design policies to pay farmers the real cost of growing food if we want to build local food sufficiency<br />
The Supreme Court today directed the central government to ensure free distribution of food grain to people below the poverty line (BPL) instead of allowing the surplus stock to rot in the godowns of Food Corporation of India (FCI).<br /><br />There are an estimated 65.2 million families covered by the BPL category and 24.3 million by the Antyodaya Anna Yojana (AAY).<br />