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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Role of the Public Distribution System in shaping household food and nutritional security in India
Over the last decade, poverty has declined substantially in India, driven largely by the country’s more recent rapid economic growth. Sadly, however, improvements in the nutritional status, particularly
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Sustainable food systems: the role of the city
Faced with a global threat to food security, it is perfectly possible that society will respond, not by a dystopian disintegration, but rather by reasserting co-operative traditions. This book, by a leading
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Food prices and poverty
Do higher food prices help or hinder poverty reduction? Despite much debate, existing research has almost solely relied on simulation models to address this question. In this paper World Bank poverty estimates
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Nigerians Need Not Panic Over Famine Reports- Ogbeh
The minister of Agriculture, Chief Audu Ogbeh, has assured Nigerians that the federal government is working round the clock to avert any imminent famine in 2017. Speaking with journalists in Abuja at
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Wasting food akin to being a ‘carbon criminal’: Environment Minister Anil Madhav Dave
Wasting food is akin to being a “carbon criminal”, Environment Minister Anil Madhav Dave has said while calling for making a lifestyle of minimum carbon footprint a movement of the future. Dave, who is
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National Food Security Act from Nov 14: Minister
UDF-led opposition staged a walkout from the assembly on Wednesday alleging government's failure in the distribution of ration commodities in the Malabar region. Food and civil supplies minister P Thilothaman
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Influencing food environments for healthy diets
More and more people are becoming overweight and obese, with increasing diet-related non-communicable diseases (NCDs). Behind the global shifts in malnutrition and NCDs are unhealthy diets and a sedentary
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Tamil Nadu to implement National Food Security Act from November 1
CHENNAI: In what is being projected as a Deepavali gift, the Jayalalithaa government has decided to implement the National Food Security Act (NFSA) from November 1, while continuing the Universal Public
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Strategic review of food security and nutrition in Bangladesh
A major independent report emphasises that the Government of Bangladesh and its partners must rally to end hunger and improve nutrition to sustain the country’s remarkable economic trajectory. Led by
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Recent trends in the global governance of food and nutrition security: policy implications for the EU
The global governance of food security and nutrition (FSN) has been evolving rapidly over the last 10 years. While the reform of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) in 2008-2009 has been celebrated