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>
P. Sunderarajan NEW DELHI: Agriculture scientist M.S. Swaminathan on Tuesday came down heavily on proposals to import foodgrains to tide over the shortage due to the poor monsoon this year. He said that if only the government had taken adequate measures to modernise foodgrains storage systems, such an eventuality would not have arisen.
There has been an animated debate in the past three years over the supply of food in the ICDS (Integrated Child Development Services) programme. Supplementary nutrition has been provided to all children under the age of six since the inception of the programme more than three decades ago. This was done with the recognition that the nutrition gap (between what children should be
Officials admit to 10 deaths in Jharkhand
U.S. wavering on climate commitment could undermine action to save the planet, the director of Germany's Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research said on the sidelines of a conference on Monday.
World food production must increase by 70 percent by 2050, to nourish a human population then likely to be 9.1 billion, the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation forecast Wednesday.
Around 2,500 monkeys in Madaripur are facing acute food crisis as the "Programme for protection and development of endangered monkeys in Char Muguria area" ended on June 30. Quite a few monkeys have already died due to food crisis while many mother monkeys, passing days starved or half-starved, are even unable to breast feed their babies, locals said.
The world will have to produce 70 percent more food by 2050 to feed a projected extra 2.3 billion people and as incomes rise, the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization said Wednesday. Global cereals demand for food and animal feed is expected to rise to 3 billion tonnes by 2050 and more demand may come from the biofuels industry, the FAO said in a statement.
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Chief Minister V S Achuthanandan has said that the implementation of the proposed National Food Security Act, without any modifications will turn out to be detrimental for a food deficit state like Kerala. He was speaking at the inauguration of the national seminar on the proposed National Food Security Act organised by the State Government here on Saturday.
The Government of Japan has decided to provide 340 million Japanese Yen as food aid grant to the Maldives. The Exchange of Notes between the Governments of Japan and Maldives was signed on September 15, 2009 at the Ministry of Foreign Affair.