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>
Planning Commission deputy chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia today indicated his willingness to endorse the poverty data suggested by the Tendulkar Committee for the ambitious Food Security Bill. The states are likely to be unhappy if the below poverty line (BPL) population of nearly 38 per cent (as estimated by the committee) is accepted by the Plan panel as it would lower their own estimates.
Hope And Despair On Key Legislations New Delhi: The Planning Commission will carry out a detailed study of beneficiaries in the below poverty line (BPL) category eligible for the proposed national food security act while adding categories of urban poor to make the ambitious welfare programme as inclusive as possible.
Even as the Congress denied that there was a disconnect between the party and the government on the Food Security Bill, party leader and Defence Minister A K Antony and Rural Development Minister C P Joshi stood out in pushing Congress
Gargi Parsai NEW DELHI: The Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM) on Food on Monday asked the Planning Commission to come up with poverty estimates (below poverty line population) which lie at the core of the formulation of the National Food Security Bill. The draft Bill, prepared by the Food Ministry and vetted by the Law Ministry, was discussed at the 90-minute meeting here.
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Empowered Group of Ministers of Food meets today
Ajay Modi / New Delhi April 05, 2010, 0:50 IST However, storage capacity way behind even present PDS procurement need. Punjab and Haryana, the two national granaries for the public distribution system, are likely to face a storage capacity shortage of 5.5 million tonnes in the rabi wheat procurement season that began on April 1.
New Delhi: As head of the empowered group of ministers (EGoM) on food security, finance minister Pranab Mukherjee has the task of reconciling two very different visions of how Congress
Manila (Philippines): The moratorium on commercial cultivation of Bt brinjal in India, which has led to a controversy over genetically modified (GM) food crops in the country, has caught farmers
UPA Wants To Revamp System Before Food Security Bill Rollout Pradeep Thakur | TNN