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 debates about the Right to Food Bill are essentially about the scope of the PDS and not its form. In the NGO perspective, the PDS should be universal and entitlements should not be less than the monthly current quota of 35 kg per household. The
Plans Afoot To Offer Coupons To Small Farmers For Purchase Of Fertilisers Too
Madurai: The Sattur Chamber of Commerce and Industries has sought the rectification of defects in The Food Safety and Standard Act 2006.
Suggestions To Set Up Food Tribunals And Offer Direct Cash-Transfer Facility Didn
AMIT AGNIHOTRI Keen to slash its massive food subsidy bill, the government on Friday deferred a proposal to hike the Central Issue Price (CIP) of food grains sold through the Public Distribution System (PDS) to the Above Poverty Line (APL) families, due to political considerations.
The UPA government took the first crucial step towards implementing right to food as an empowered group of ministers headed by finance minister Pranab Mukherjee cleared the draft national food security bill. The bill, promising 25 kg of foodgrains per month at Rs 3 per kg to BPL persons, will now go to the Cabinet before it is posted on the food ministry website for public opinion.
The Empowered Group of Ministers that met here on Thursday has advised the Union Food Ministry to get the National Food Security Bill vetted by the Law Ministry before placing it in the Union Cabinet for approval. The proposed Bill envisages provision of 25 kg. of wheat or rice to BPL families at Rs. 3 per kg per month.
AN EMPOWERED group of ministers (EGoM) headed by finance minister Pranab Mukherjee on Thursday cleared the draft food security bill, ruled out wheat exports for the present despite overwhelming stocks, approved a decision to increase foodgrain allocation for the above poverty line (APL) consumers of the public distribution system (PDS) and endorsed the ban on pulses export by a year up to March 20
Noted agriculture scientist and Rajya Sabha member M S Swaminathan on Thursday called for a comprehensive plan to ensure food security in the coming years, in the wake of climate change and shrinking agricultural sector.
A study of price rise across 78 towns and cities between April 2006 and June 2009 shows that the inflation in the case of rice is more of a large-town phenomenon. The same trend has been observed in the case of edible oils and fish.