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>
The State unit of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI-M) will organise street-corner meetings, foot marches, demonstrations and rallies at local and district levels throughout the State in protest against abnormal rise in the prices of essential items and to press for its demand for food security of the people, between August 16 and September 15.
Nearly 15 months of double-digit food inflation has led most Indians to make painful cuts in their daily meals. TOI finds poor families across the country being forced into dietary choices that are sowing the seeds of an acutely malnourished future generation Rukmini Shrinivasan | TIG
P M Raghunandan, July 29, Bangalore: The State Government has at last has taken a crucial step towards ensuring quality and quantity in the supply of edible oil to consumers. As many as 29 widely-used edible oils, including refined vegetable oil, coconut oil and sunflower oil have to be sold in packaged sachets, henceforth.
The agriculture ministry has put on hold the controversial Seeds Bill, 2004, following strong objections from the MPs, mainly on the pricing and penalty clauses. Sources said while the penalty clause would be further referred to the law ministry for its opinion, the ministry would consider the suggestion of creating a national authority to decide pricing of the seeds.
New Delhi: With foodgrain stocks mounting and good monsoons promising yet another bumper harvest, government has decided to export around 300,000 tonne of wheat and rice to Bangladesh and Nepal through diplomatic channels.
Chandigarh: While people in some food grain deficit states were starving, thousands of tonne of wheat stocks were rotting in the open in the rains in Punjab.
CHANDIGARH: Punjab Congress president Mohinder Singh Kaypee on Wednesday demanded a CBI inquiry into the rotting of thousands of tonnes of foodgrains in the State.
As demand for food shoots up, only a sustainable farm policy that involves higher research allocation, lower wastage and an alternative to the public distribution will help contain inflation, says Rajan Bharti Mittal
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A proposal to let nations opt out of growing European-approved GM varieties is under fire from all sides.