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>
Only a short time ago, African farmland seemed of little interest to outsiders. But last year's food crisis and water scarcity in many countries has changed foreigners' appetite with the result being that fertile soil in Africa is now sought by international investors to the tune of hundreds of thousands of hectares.
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Seven years ago, a mountain of foodgrain inventory proved led to huge losses
Gargi Parsai NEW DELHI: The Congress
AIZAWL, May 17: Food scarcity has hit Mizoram as rice, the staple food of the state, could not be transported through trains due to militancy in neighbouring Asom, official sources said here.They said that train services in Asom were disrupted following recent attacks on trains by suspected Dimasa rebels on the Lumding-Badarpur sector, causing erratic supply of rice at Mizoram
Devika Banerji / New Delhi May 16, 2009, 0:45 IST An analysis of price movements in the past three months reveals a handful of food products such as cereals, pulses and sugar have kept the headline inflation rate, earlier predicted to go below zero by April-end, in the positive terrain.
million pot pies last year under its popular Banquet label
Surinder Sud / New Delhi May 11, 2009, 0:29 IST Even as the prices of food items in the international market dropped sharply from their peak in 2008 in response to higher global stocks and improved export supplies, food prices in most of the developing countries have defied this trend and remain high. This has constrained the economic access to food for the poor.
Gargi Parsai NEW DELHI: To address concerns over the expected increase in the level of global food security owing to the financial and economic crisis that has hit the world, senior experts from the Food and Agriculture Organisation and the 30-nation Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) will meet on Tuesday to map out long-term investment and financing strategies.
The biggest threat to global stability is the potential for food crises in poor countries to cause government collapse.