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 municipality of Contagem in the State of Minas Gerais, despite being known as an industrial centre, has an enormous potential to develop urban agriculture. The current administration recognises this, and supports the development of agriculture as an important strategy for consolidating its Municipal Food and Nutritional Security Policy.
Ravish Tiwari Posted: Monday , Jun 01, 2009 at 0100 hrs IST
The successful implementation of NREGA and the Right to Information Act indicates that the climate is conducive for a far-reaching, rights-based legislation to eliminate hunger and deprivation.
It happens only in India. The country is the second largest producer of food in the world, yet over 300 million people go without two square meals a day. Ironically, food worth Rs 58,000 crore
Last year the skyrocketing cost of food was a wake-up call for the planet. Between 2005 and the summer of 2008, the price of wheat and corn tripled, and the price of rice climbed fivefold, spurring food riots in nearly two dozen countries and pushing 75 million more people into poverty.
The government yesterday introduced the country's first comprehensive National Food Policy Plan of Action targeting to ensure food security for all by 2015. Under the plan of action the Government will have to increase food supply by 2015 to ensure food security for some 40 per cent of the population, who suffer for nutrition at present.
Gargi Parsai NEW DELHI: The United Progressive Alliance (UPA) will deliver on the Congress
TIRUCHI: Adulterators, beware. Women in Tiruchi city will soon be scientifically identifying not only the quantum but also the type of adulterated material or substance mixed with food products and edible oils, courtesy the two-day training for a group of women inaugurated in the city on Monday.
Rs 3/kg Grain May Not Be Boon To All Prabha Jagannathan NEW DELHI
A report, prepared and released by the United Nation