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>
The question of food security in this country is back in business with the Cabinet clearing the food bill and the Supreme Court gearing up to consider a report commissioned by it on the definition of poverty and related issues. The point is simple. The Bill that will be introduced in Parliament envisages providing 25 kg of food grain at subsidised rates to the poor. But it does not define poor.
Concerned over the subsidy bill touching about Rs 1.90-lakh crore in 2010-11, the Planning Commission today pitched for halving it, which, if accepted, could push up the prices of fertilisers, cooking gas and foodgrain being sold through ration shops.
The proposed Food Security Bill should adopt a three-pronged strategy that constitutes a Universal Public Distribution System for all, low-cost foodgrains to the needy, and convergence in the delivery of nutrition safety net programmes.
UNLESS THE prices of vegetables skyrocket and become a scandal
Government inaction on food-price inflation amounts to an implicit declaration that it is inevitable and has little to do with policy.
Will coupons work better than commodities?
New Delhi: Pragmatic politics and sound economics are not supposed to go together, but the national food security bill may prove the popular adage wrong.
AMIT AGNIHOTRI India's food security high on his agenda, Union agriculture minister Sharad Pawar will press for greater cooperation between Brazil, Russia, India and China (BRIC) to boost the farm sector during a meet in Moscow this week.