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>
A Bill of rights is no solution, improved PDS is Business Standard / New Delhi July 07, 2010, 0:19 IST
P. Sainath The official line is simple. Since we cannot afford to feed all the hungry, there must only be as many hungry as we can afford to feed.
Potential farm sector: A file photo of female labourers sorting mangoes at a fruit market in Allahabad. Saurab Bhat
Shimla, July 2 Improper storage and negligence continues to damage foodgrain stock of the Food Corporation of India (FCI). In fact, it had about 14,000 tonnes of totally damaged rice, wheat and paddy, which could not be issued for distribution at the start of the year.
SHILLONG, July 2
Food Security Bill Set For Radical Rewrite; To Benefit More, Add Nutritional Value M Rajshekhar NEW DELHI THE National Advisory Council (NAC), it appears, is set to radically rewrite the the Food Security Bill.
The National Advisory Council, chaired by Congress party president Sonia Gandhi, met for the second time today after its recent revival and unanimously endorsed the idea of universal access to the public distribution system in rural areas. It was agreed that a universalised PDS should be implemented initially in 150 districts, a member said.
Nistula Hebbar New Delhi: The proposal that the poor be given direct cash subsidy under the food security law when grain is not available may not go through with many members of the Sonia Gandhi-led National Advisory Council (NAC) denouncing the move.
<p>This paper provides an overview of developments in food safety policy in major industrial countries and of economic analysis of this policy. It describes the elements of a risk-based, farm-to-fork food safety system as it is emerging in OECD countries guided by discussions through Codex Alimentarius and traces its roots in the development of risk management policy in the United States.
Smita Gupta New Delhi: The Sonia Gandhi-led National Advisory Council (NAC), in its second avatar, is looking to expand its mandate. On Thursday, when its members assemble for its first substantive meeting, the NAC will discuss