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>
After Manipur, it is now the turn of Arunachal Pradesh to complain about scarcity of food items, with the State Government complaining about irregular Public Distribution System (PDS) in the State.
AMIT AGNIHOTRI NEW DELHI Non-Congress nruled states insist that they are being discriminated against on the key issue of food subsidy.
If we cannot spruce up our PDS, the author Manisha Priyam argues, we can wind it up because some Latin American countries have come up with a very workable system; direct cash transfer rather than help in kind.
Dr Alok Shukla is among those civil servants who received awards for excellence in public administration from the prime minister on April 21. As secretary, food and civil supplies department, Chhattisgarh, he, along with two of his colleagues, has been credited with turning the much-maligned PDS into a success story.
ITANAGAR, May 14: With the PDS carriage contractors threatening to quit service if their pending bills are not cleared by the FCI, Arunachal Pradesh is in the verge facing an acute food crisis, which is already in an alarming situation according to reports.
Zoe Williams As the world is hit by a food crisis, the markets see nothing immoral in skimming off a profit.
Nistula Hebbar, SANJEEB MUKHERJEE New Delhi: The average Indian family size is shrinking fast. With increasing migration from villages to urban areas and across states, families are becoming more nuclear with just above four members. While the government is crunching the latest numbers, it has already started impacting food grain allocation plans under the proposed Food Security Act.
Time to rethink food procurement policy
INDIA BECAME independent soon after the Great Bengal Famine that claimed two million lives. An independent and free India reclaimed her food sovereignty and food security.
HumaSiddiqui New Delhi India should New Delhi, May 7: India should look at Latin American countries to keep its food security intact. With little or no investment in the agriculture sector, it is estimated that 45% of Indian farmers want to quit farming