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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National Food Security Act launched in Darrang district
The National Food Security Act, 2013 was ceremonially launched in Darrang district on Sunday in a largely attended public function organized by the district administration in association with the district
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UP to roll out food security law on Jan 1
After two years of dithering, Uttar Pradesh is implementing the food security law from the New Year’s Day. While 24 districts, mostly in western UP, will roll out the scheme on Friday, the remaining 51
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What Is the cost of providing one rupee of support to the poor? Assessing the ‘new’ PDS
The enduring equity-efficiency debate on India’s food policy revolves around two key issues—leakage of cereal grains from the system, and reduction in benefits at the extensive margin to reduce the fiscal
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Five years since the famine, Somali children still stalked by menace of hunger
With so much the world focused on war, terrorism and the plight of a seemingly endless stream of refugees, it is no surprise that Somalia has been forgotten. The last time the country was featured in news
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Food banks gain ground in Dinajpur
Community-based food banks in remote rural areas of Dinajpur district are gaining popularity for minimising food insecurity and alleviating poverty of the ultra-poor. The local people first set up a food
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Food security solution deadlocked in Nairobi
With just a week for the World Trade Organisation's (WTO) ministerial meeting to commence in Nairobi, talks remain deadlocked with no end in sight for India's demand to find a permanent solution to its
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The State of Agricultural Commodity Markets 2015–16
This edition of The State of Agricultural Commodity Markets aims to reduce the current polarization of views on the impacts of agricultural trade on food security and on the manner in which agricultural
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Food scheme a flop, poor still hungry
New Delhi: Dinesh Singh doesn't remember the last time he ate fruit or a bowl of vegetables. For the last three years he has practically lived on an unvarying lunch of six puris and aloo sabzi at a Jan
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WTO: India to insist on solution for food security
Despite the reservations of developed countries, India will pitch for the conclusion of the Doha Round, permanent solution to the food security issue and protection to farmers from sudden surge in imports
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South Sudan food team finds risk of 'widespread catastrophe'
Tens of thousands of people surviving on water lilies and swamp fish after fleeing South Sudan's war may run out of food entirely when the dry season starts in January, food security experts said in a