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>
Due to increased accessibility to information, growing public awareness and enhancement of the State PFA (Prevention of Food Adulteration Act) enforcement machinery, the sale of sub-standard and adulterated food has come down considerably, but pulses, milk etc., are some of the items that still are most adulterated.
Gargi Parsai NEW DELHI: The government may shift to per capita allocation of foodgrains and raise the price of wheat and rice meant for the Above the Poverty Line (APL) population under the Public Distribution System (PDS) to meet the objectives of the proposed National Food Security Bill.
SANJEEB MUKHERJEE
World food prices will rise this decade, boosted by a growing population and changing diets, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said in their annual outlook report.
AMIT AGNIHOTR The National Advisory Council, headed by Congress president Sonia Gandhi, will review the draft Food Security Bill at its first full-scale meeting on July 1.
New Delhi: In India, food safety and standards are neglected topic despite being directly related to public health. According to a survey conducted by Ficci, almost 30% of the respondents, bulk of whom were from the food processing industry, were unaware that Food Safety and Standards Act (FSSA) is mandatory to implement. The respondents were not even aware about the existence of such an Act.
AGARTALA, June 13: The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) led Left Front government in Tripura on Friday urged the Central government stop futures trading in food commodities to control the rising prices of essential goods.
NEW DELHI, June 10
One of the key demands of the Right to Food Campaign for the National Food Security Act is to re-introduce nutritious millets to government food programmes like the public distribution system. Millets like bajra, jowar, kodo, kutki and ragi among hundreds of other varieties have sustained communities for close to 10,000 years in India.
At First Meet, Sonia-Led Group Decides To Go Beyond Prez Address New Delhi: Tribal development will be one of the top priorities of the reconstituted National Advisory Council (NAC) along with focus on disadvantaged groups. The group held its first meeting on Thursday with Sonia Gandhi back as chairperson.