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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Food-secure Zambia set to feed region
ZAMBIA’S annual national consumption was slightly above 1,500,000 metric tonnes by the end of 2015. THE bullies of the airwaves who have perfected the art of humiliating guests who do not support their
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Oman ranks second in GCC for food security
Muscat: Oman has been ranked second in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) for food security, availability and quality on Global Food Security Index 2016. According to the report, which was published
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Hundreds of children in Nigeria's Boko Haram-hit Borno starving, says Unicef
The United Nations Children's Emergency Fund (Unicef) has estimated that almost a quarter of a million children in Nigeria's Borno state, which was once controlled by the Islamic militant group Boko Haram,
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Rs 7,000 crore food scheme: Petitioner to meet CM
MUMBAI: Satisfied with the Aurangabad bench of the Bombay high court setting aside a crucial clause in the tendering process for the supply of nutritious food to children aged below 6 and lactating mothers
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Nigeria: UN Reports 'Alarming' Level of Malnutrition and Famine-Like Conditions in Northeast Nigeria
Humanitarian convoys have uncovered emergency levels of severe acute malnutrition and famine-like conditions in Nigeria's Borno State, particularly in 15 satellite camps, where some 275,000 people are
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Half of all US food produce is thrown away, new research suggests
Americans throw away almost as much food as they eat because of a “cult of perfection”, deepening hunger and poverty, and inflicting a heavy toll on the environment. Vast quantities of fresh produce
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FSSAI proposes double ash content in noodles
Ash content is now allowed up to 1%, the new notification has proposed to increase it to 2% for seasonings or tastemakers The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has issued a draft
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U.N. food agency says faces $610 million shortfall for southern Africa drought relief
The United Nations' food agency said on Thursday it needed $730 million over the next 12 months for relief in seven southern African countries hit hard by a blistering drought and faced a $610 million
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Food shortage threatens 2.4m people in northeast, says USAID
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has announced that, at least 2.4 million people in the northeast are under threat of short food supply. The agency said the shortage is due to the
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Turning Olympic food waste into nutritious meals for the needy
Every year around one-third of worldwide food production is wasted or lost around the globe, entailing the simultaneous loss of all the resources - water, soil, agricultural inputs, feed - that went into