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>
Beijing has threatened to ban import of seafood and other food products from India if New Delhi continues to restrict import of milk products from China, the government informed the Lok Sabha today.
Low monsoon rain and India
The government is pushing ahead with its 'aam aadmi' campaign with the President I promising a National Food Security Act. Providing food to the poor is inherent to effectively combating poverty and, therefore, I feel the intention of the government is laudable.
Ajay Modi / New Delhi July 24, 2009, 1:26 IST Sowing of important kharif crops down, adds to uncertainty Lower acreage in kharif crops like paddy and pulses has driven up prices of rice, tur and urad sharply over the past month. The higher prices in most of these food items are here to stay, say experts.
The government, it seems, has decided to go slow on the Food Security Act, something it had promised to enact very quickly, just a month ago. An early indicator of the changed approach was evident in the Budget speech when the finance minister said that a draft of the legislation would be put up on the website of the food ministry for debate
New Delhi: The finance ministry on Monday indicated that the government was preparing a back-up plan in case of failure of monsoon as it has already impacted crop sowing in a large part of the country.
Devesh K. Pandey NEW DELHI: U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Sunday said agriculture would be the strongest and most important pillar of cooperation between the United States and India.
This article attempts to flag some of the issues that are likely to come up in the debate on the Right to Food Act in the coming months. It is important to ensure that this debate focuses on the substantive issues. In the run-up to the enactment of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, the debate was somewhat derailed by a loud anti-NREGA lobby, particularly vocal in the business press.
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The State cannot implement the Food Security Act mooted by the Union Government, as it has been framed against the interests of the State, Food and Civil Supplies Minister C.Divakaran has said. If the Act is implemented, there will be a considerable decrease in the number of BPL cardholders in the State, he said.
K. Balchand NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday constituted an empowered Group of Ministers to decide on strategies for procurement and management of foodgrain stocks, revision of central issue prices of foodgrains and the proposed law on food security.