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>
Food Policy
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Nepalese organise food drive campaign in Canada
Nepalese Canadian Association of Ottawa (NCAO) held a successful Annual Food Drive 2008. "This year's food drive campaign to benefit the Ottawa Food Bank achieved an extraordinary success by exceeding its goal of raising $10,000. The drive raised $12,000 worth of non-perishable food and cash for the Ottawa Food Bank," says a press release by NCAO.
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Oxfam warning on food crisis
Xan Rice In an emergency appeal on Thursday, Oxfam warns that millions of people in Ethiopia, Somalia, Uganda, Djibouti and Kenya are fast being pushed "towards severe hunger and destitution'. Earlier this week the U.N. said it needed
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Spices Board warns of contaminated imports
George Joseph / Kochi July 25, 2008, 0:55 IST The Spices Board of India has warned to importers and value-adding units of whole star anise and Saigon cinnamon of Vietnam that the consignments to India could have been contaminated with an unapproved colour known as Chrysoidine. The board said in a press statement that manufacturing units of curry powders and garam masalas should make sure the imported consignments of these spices are free from Chrysoidine, so as to avoid rejection and recall of exports.
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View Point: Child deaths due to hunger, malnutrition
Hunger and malnutrition deaths continue to be reported from Madhya Pradesh. Press reported that hunger forced a 11-year-old girl to commit suicide in Madhya Pradesh's Jabalpur town. It is story of Sanjeeda, a resident of Moti Nagar in Jabalpur, who committed suicide by hanging herself. She was hungry for the past two days because there was nothing to eat in the house. 'I tried to get foodgrain under the Chief Minister's Annapurna Yojana (scheme) but all in vain', said Sanjeeda's mother Praveen to the police as per press reports.
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Ban futures in agri products: Panel
Newswire18 / New Delhi July 24, 2008, 0:46 IST A Parliament panel has advised that futures trade in agricultural commodities should be discouraged as speculative trade leads to artificial rise in prices. In its report tabled in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday, the Parliament Standing Committee on agriculture said that though futures offers a good hedging mechanism, it has not benefitted small farmers in India so far. FIRM FINDINGS
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$170m ADB support for food security
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will provide US$170 million loan to Bangladesh to cope with the rising food price, a bank release said yesterday. The loan is a part of a broader food security package being extended by international agencies and also initiated by the Government of Bangladesh totalling a monetary value of US$1.29 billion. The emergency assistance for food security project, which is supported by ADB and other multilateral agencies, will ensure access to food supply for those hardest hit by recent natural disasters in Bangladesh and the rapid increase in food prices.
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U.N. Secretary-General warns of "double jeopardy' of high food and fuel prices
V. Jayanth Calls for global partnership to save the poor; "Act immediately to boost agricultural output' CHENNAI: U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has warned that the "double jeopardy' of high food and fuel prices threatened to undermine much of the progress made in achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Critical challenges
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ADB to lend $170m to face food crisis
The Asian Development Bank will lend Bangladesh $170 million to help cope with a rapid rise in food prices. The loan, part of a package with other multilateral aid donors, "will ensure access to food supply for those hardest hit by recent natural disasters in Bangladesh and the rapid increase in food prices," the ADB said in a statement yesterday. ADB funding will provide support to Bangladeshi government "safety net programmes" intended to ensure that some five million poor people get access to food.
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Days of cheap food in Asia are over: ADB
The era of cheap food for Asia is over as surging demand, supply problems and the growing production of biofuels will keep food prices high, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) warned Tuesday. In its latest Asia Economic Monitor report, the Manila-based lender warned that while previous food price surges were "cyclical and temporary,' the higher prices now being seen were caused by permanent changes. "This time, the impetus appears to come from persistently rising demand ...
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ADB to lend BD $170m to cope with food crisis
The Asian Development Bank said Tuesday it is to lend Bangladesh $170 million to help cope with a rapid rise in food prices triggered in part by natural disasters. The loan, part of a package with other multilateral aid donors, "will ensure access to food supply for those hardest hit by recent natural disasters in Bangladesh and the rapid increase in food prices,' the ADB said in a statement. ADB funding will provide support to Bangladeshi government "safety net programmes' intended to ensure that some five million poor people get access to food. afp