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• 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>

  • 27/03/2024

  • UNEP
  • • Food Security
    • Food Supply
    • Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
    • India
    • Global
    • Africa

• PM's food scheme launched

  The Prime Minister's food scheme for the poorest of the poor, "Antyodaya Anna Yogna", was launched in Rajasthan today. The Union Minister of State for Food and Civil Supplies, Mr. Sriram Chouhan,

  • 07/03/2001

  • Hindu (New Delhi)
  • • Food Policy

• Hunger Project focus on women empowerment

  A spawn (mushroom seed) production laboratory and a mushroom and vermi-compost unit are being set up at Echerla in Srikakulam district of Andhra Pradesh jointly by the Hunger Project and the District

  • 02/04/2001

  • Business Line (New Delhi)
  • • Food Policy

• Govt frames fresh norms for FFW programme

  To rid the Food For Work programme (FFW) of irregularities, the Andhra Pradesh State Government is drawing up fresh guidelines withdrawing the discretionary powers of ministers and MLAs and

  • 14/12/2001

  • • Food Policy

• Success and failure

  A nation-wide survey conducted by the Public Affairs Centre of Bangalore has thrown up some interesting results. Barring Gujarat and Tamil Nadu, Karnataka has done better than the rest of the country

  • 25/10/2002

  • Deccan Herald (Bangalore)
  • • Food Policy

• - Food aid improves rural poor's life

  'Food Aid Reduces Poverty' published in Dhaka provided an insight into the specific value of food assistance as a tool to promote people oriented development for improving household food security in

  • 03/02/1998

  • Bangladesh Observer (Dhaka)
  • • Food Policy

• Donors concerned about food aid cost efficiency

  Direct food aid once reaches a rural Bangladesh household is most likely to be taken care of by a female, whereas additional cash will be certainly managed by a male. Food aid thus has the

  • 25/01/1998

  • Bangladesh Observer (Dhaka)
  • • Food Policy

• Rs 20 cr action plan for RR district

  Minister for home T Devender Goud on Thursday said that the government has proposed to implement an action plan with Rs crore under the food-for-work programme in Ranga Reddy district due to

  • 24/12/2000

  • • Food Policy

• Italy forces UN to move food summit

  Italy has bulldozed the United Nations into agreeing to switch a world food summit from Rome to another location, probably elsewhere in Italy, which can be defended from anti-globalisation protests.

  • 03/12/2000

  • • Food Policy

• Cabinet approves Rs 10000 cr scheme for food security.

  Following the Prime minister's August 15 announcement, the Union cabinet approved a Rs 10000 crore programme to provide employment opportunities and food security in rural areas. Essentially a

  • 19/12/2000

  • • Food Policy

• Cut in U.N. food aid ' will affect children'

  The United Nations will cut food distribution to more than one million children and elderly people in North Korea because of a cutback in international aid. Undersecretary General for Humanitarian

  • 02/05/2002

  • Hindu (New Delhi)
  • • Food Policy