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>
Gargi Parsai NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will inaugurate here on Tuesday the first-ever national conference of State food processing Ministers to give a push for a uniform policy for the growth of the sector. Of the 35 States and Union Territories invited, 32 have confirmed their participation as have representatives of industry and research institutions.
In recent years, a number of countries have begun drafting specific legislation aimed at ensuring or promoting the realization of the right to food; these include Argentina,
The Food Safety & Standards Act, 2006 seeks to regulate the law relating to advertising and unfair trade practices in the food sector. Section 3(1)(b) The Act defines
This guide describes methods and tools with which to undertake a right to adequate food assessment. The guide attempts to be practical, and to provide the most relevant methodological and operational information.
The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2009 presents the latest statistics on global undernourishment and concludes that structural problems of underinvestment have impeded progress toward the World Food Summit goal and the first Millennium Development Goal hunger reduction target.
Chennai, Sept. 30 A unified law covering the entire gamut of food processing industries is set to take effect this year-end, Mr Ashok Sinha, Secretary, Ministry of Food Processing Industries, has said.
P. Sunderarajan NEW DELHI: Agriculture scientist M.S. Swaminathan on Tuesday came down heavily on proposals to import foodgrains to tide over the shortage due to the poor monsoon this year. He said that if only the government had taken adequate measures to modernise foodgrains storage systems, such an eventuality would not have arisen.
IN JULY 2008, when the Doha talks to liberalize trade among member countries of the World Trade Organization (WTO) broke down, the US blamed India. This year, when India tried to revive the talks at a two-day informal meet of ministers from 30 countries in Delhi, the US did not seem keen to clinch the agreement. The two-day mini-Doha meeting was held on September 3-4. At the end of the
World food production must increase by 70 percent by 2050, to nourish a human population then likely to be 9.1 billion, the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation forecast Wednesday.
For years, anti-poverty campaigners railed against low commodity prices, which depressed farmers' incomes in developing countries. In recent months, the world price of virtually all staples has shot up, but the activists are still not cheering. They worry that this boom (intensified by "green" subsidies for biofuel crops) may worsen poverty even more than low agricultural prices did.