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>
Increasing investment in health and education, environmental issues are major challenges. Planning Commission Member, Professor Abhijit Sen, has observed that bad management of food grains and a high economic growth rate, particularly in the non-agricultural sectors, had led to spiralling prices of food grains.
Saubhadro Chatterji & Devika Banerji / New Delhi April 30, 2010, 1:02 IST
The Tamil Nadu Foodgrains Merchants Association has sought changes in FSS Act 2006. In a letter addressed to Mr Gulam Nabi Azad, Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare, the association Secretary, Mr P. Subashchandrabose, said that the new act has several clauses which are not practically possible to implement in Indian context.
No one in his wildest imagination would have thought that a state like Madhya Pradesh will become a wheat-surplus state. But, it is now a reality.
Bhartiya Janata Party state vice president and MP Maya Singh alleged the UPA government that it is avoiding to fulfil promise it made during the general election even as its completion of one year in the office is close on heels. Its procrastination poses serious question on its credibility.
Kohima, April 27: Nagaland Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio has announced that the State will attain food sufficiency by 2020 and called upon for better coordination between agri and allied sectors.
The food coupons plan will remove some of the ills that plague India
Ajay Modi / Chandigarh April 26, 2010, 0:00 IST Siphoning off food and fuel meant for the poor has made India
<p>The Unique Identification number (Aadhaar) was conceived by the Indian government as a means for residents to clearly and uniquely verify their identity anywhere in the country. The mandate for
The barriers created by stunted agricultural growth for industrial development have constituted a recurrent theme in debates on Indian economic policy. This essay brings out these debates in terms of the disproportionality caused by the disparate rates of industrial and agricultural growth.