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>
<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>
Using the recent rounds of NSS data, this paper evaluates the performance and outreach of India’s public distribution system (PDS) in the rural areas. The results suggest a significant improvement in the
Targeting India’s Food Security Programme, the US has questioned its efficiency and has said that the country should spell out measures to increase the programme’s effectiveness. It has also demanded
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<p>IFPRI’s flagship report examines the major food policy issues, developments, and decisions of 2013. It puts into perspective the year’s food policy successes and setbacks, and suggests how
The Middle East's driest winter in several decades could pose a threat to global food prices, with local crops depleted and farmers' livelihoods blighted, U.N. experts and climatologists say. Varying
With the Delhi Government deciding to merge the Anna Shree Yojna with the Food Security Scheme launched by the UPA Government in September last year, officials said around 7.5 lakh more people would start getting their entitlements under the scheme from April. At present, around 32 lakh people are receiving highly subsidised rations in the city under the Food Security Scheme.
Despite the importance of effective food aid in the country, a large share of PDS food grains do not reach their intended beneficiaries. However, the Indian State of Chhattisgarh instituted a number of PDS reforms in the early and mid-2000s in an effort to improve the distribution of PDS food grains finds this paper published by United States Department of Agriculture.
This paper outlines India’s achievements in the area of food and nutrition security, and explores what lessons India has to offer to other South countries, and the institutions through which such knowledge
The world loses or wastes a staggering 25 percent to 33 percent of the food it produces for consumption, losses that can mean the difference between an adequate diet and malnutrition in many countries,
The Congress may be banking heavily on the Food Security Act to help it garner votes in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, but the Independent Evaluation Office (IEO) under the Planning Commission has given