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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Hidden" hunger crisis in Congo pushing it closer to famine
Hunger in the Democratic Republic of Congo has soared in the last year, leaving 7.7 million people in urgent need of food aid and pushing the country closer to famine than it has been in a decade, food
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Wasted: how America is losing up to 40 percent of its food from farm to fork to landfill
The second edition of its groundbreaking 2012 report, the NRDC’s Wasted: How America Is Losing Up to 40 Percent of Its Food from Farm to Fork to Landfill provides updated statistics on the environmental,
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Nigeria: Govt Spends N6.2 Billion to Feed Pupils in 14 States
Abuja — The federal government yesterday said it had spent over N6.2 billion to feed about 3,000,000 pupils under its National Homegrown School Feeding Programme in pursuit of its Social Investment Programme
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Namibia: Close to 30,000 Needy People Benefit From Namib Mills Nutrition Initiative
Windhoek — For the past eleven years Namib Mills, the country's largest grain processing company, has been supporting 215 registered charity organisations throughout the country. These institutions
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Nigeria: Famine Looms in North-East Nigeria As Food Crisis Worsens
"We are hungry". This is currently the commonest expression in the northeastern part of Nigeria. Amongst the displaced are women and children from Bama, a severely conflict- affected town and hard to
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WWF highlights SA's shocking food wastage
WWF South Africa’s new Food Loss and Waste: Facts and Futures report sketches a staggering state of food loss and waste in the country. It said that fruits, vegetables and cereals together account for
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34% of Egyptians reduce their consumption of food: Baseera
34% of Egyptians had to reduce their consumption of goods, especially food, according to Baseera, the Egyptian Centre for Public Opinion Research. Baseera said that 84% of respondents in its poll said
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Indian food and welfare schemes: scope for digitization towards cash transfers
The paper presents a case for a phased rolling out of direct benefits transfer (DBT) for Food in India. By studying all states and Union Territories on three broad parameters: demographics, performance
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Strengthening sector policies for better food security and nutrition results: climate change
Extreme climate events are increasing in frequency and intensity, threatening the agriculture sectors and the livelihoods they support. By impacting on agro-ecosystems, climate change and variability have
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UN says food security in Somalia unlikely to improve before 2018
MOGADISHU Somalia (Xinhua) -- Food and nutrition security situation in Somalia is not likely to improve before the end of the year or January 2018, the UN humanitarian agency said on Tuesday. The UN