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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Kenya: County gov’t, WFP in joint agreement to strengthen food security
The local government of Baringo in the Rift Valley County and the World Food Programme on Wednesday disclosed they have entered into a two-year agreement on reinforcing the ability of the local authorities
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Over 7 Crore People In West Bengal Under Food Security Scheme: Mamata Banerjee
MIDNAPORE, WEST BENGAL: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday said that over seven crore people in the state have been brought under food security scheme and claimed that the works done
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More than 170,000 Mozambicans hit by acute food shortage – Official
Mozambique’s Food and Nutritional Security Technical Secretariat (SETSAN), and the relief agency, the National Disaster Management Institute (INGC) have disclosed that more than 170,000 people in the country’s
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Swaziland: Food security to worsen in 2016 – Prediction
Reduced crop and livestock production resultant from the prevailing worst El Nino weather phenomenon is set to extremely impact on Swaziland’s food security in 2016, APA reports on Thursday. Economist
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Weather, war threaten to leave millions more hungry in 2016- aid agencies
Millions more people globally are facing the threat of severe food and water shortages in early 2016 as droughts and flood devastate crops and strain a humanitarian system already struggling to meet needs,
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Jan 15 deadline for National Food Security Act card name recall
BHUBANESWAR: With reports coming in from many parts of the state about names of elected representatives mostly from BJD featuring on the list of National Food Security Act (NFSA) beneficiaries, the state
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Social safety nets for food and nutritional security in India
This paper brings together existing literature on the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNRGEA) and the Public Distribution System (PDS) in India, offering a narrative review of
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Food and nutrition security in Nepal: a status report
This report on Nepal‘s food and nutrition security is one of the three main outputs of an analytical and capacity building regional project coordinated by the FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific.
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Syria: 40,000 civilians starving to death in town besieged by Assad forces and Hezbollah, says monitoring agency
About 40,000 civilians in Syria's Madaya town are reportedly on the brink of starving to death as they have remained cut off from food and medicine supplies over the last six months due to a siege by government
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Foodgrains distribution under NFSA
The Forest and Environment and Tea and ex-Tea Tribes Welfare Minister Atuwa Munda on Monday formally inaugurated the launch of the distribution of foodgrains under the National Food Security Act (NFSA),