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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Govt defers rollout of food security Act by six months
The government on Thursday deferred the country-wide rollout of the National Food Security Act, 2013, by another six months, to the first week of April 2015, because of states’ inability to create requisite
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Aid groups cheer food price fall to 4-year low, 'hunger hotspots' remain
World food prices have hit a four-year low, a UN agency reported on Thursday, with record harvests breathing new hope into the fight against hunger, though some "hunger hotspots" remain. Global wheat
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Aid Agencies Warn of Looming Famine in South Sudan Next Year
Leading aid agencies operating in South Sudan have warned that parts of the country, already facing one of the world's worse food crises, could experience famine early next year unless the current conflict
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Right to food and nutrition watch 2014: ten years of the right to food guidelines - gains, concerns and struggles
Arguably the single most violated human right in the world, the right to adequate food and nutrition is contending with the emergence of growing threats posed by corporate and economic interests that are
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How to build resilience to conflict: the role of food security
This Food Policy Report explains why there is a need to place even higher priority on food security–related policies and programs in conflict-prone countries, and offers insights for policymakers regarding
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Aid, rain save South Sudan from famine, 2015 outlook grim: WFP
Emergency food aid, normal rainfall and the start of the harvest have helped to stave off famine in South Sudan, the latest analysis shows, but there is a risk of mass starvation in early 2015. Aid
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Food crunch hits far-west hill districts‚ famine looms large
DIPAYAL: Folks of hilly districts in the far-west are facing food crisis due to obstruction of supply of food grain after the road was damaged due to landslide some two-and-a-half months ago. The roads
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World hunger easing but 1 in 9 people undernourished - food agencies
The number of hungry people in the world has fallen sharply over the past decade but 805 million, or one in nine of the global population, still do not have enough to eat, three U.N. food and agriculture
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The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2014
The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2014 presents updated estimates of undernourishment and progress towards the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) and World Food Summit (WFS) hunger targets. A stock-taking of where stand on reducing hunger and malnutrition shows that progress in hunger reduction at the global level and in many countries has continued but that substantial additional effort is needed in others.
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Food crunch hits Bajura folks hard
BAJURA: Although locals of 11 VDCs have been facing acute food crisis for the last two months, they are yet to be supplied with rice in the northern part of Bajura. Chief of Food Corporation in Kolti,