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 Supply
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Poor farmers to guard Earth's crop riches
The Quechua of Peru are among the first recipients of a new global fund for becoming custodians of the world's threatened crops.
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For food scheme, Centre tries to get BPL family definition right
Ravish Tiwari As the Centre prepares to enact the National Food Security Act (NFSA) to implement its promise of 25 kg of rice/wheat at Rs 3 per kg for the below poverty line (BPL) families, it will have to first grapple with the anomalies in the existing public distribution system.
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Plan panel: Food Act execution tough
MUKESH RANJAN June 10: Expressing skepticism over the proposed Food Security Act, the Planning Commission on Wednesday said that the implementation of the new law would not be a cakewalk like the much-hyped NREGA. It said that fixing responsibility in case of failure in implementing the law would be an area of concern.
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Hard to do an NREGA with food: Panel
Priyadarshi Siddhanta
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Cash for food: Pilot project yet to get Centre nod
Abantika Ghosh | TNN New Delhi: It was supposed to be the beginning of the end of the public distribution system (PDS). But several months after it was first mooted, the state department of food and civil supplies (FCS) is still awaiting the central go-ahead for the pilot project under the
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Crop failure leads to food scarcity in Manipur district
Samudra Gupta Kashyap Over 10,000 people, all tribal inhabitants of Phungyar subdivision in Manipur
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Is a food security Act doable?
P K JOSHI
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Food prices still high: FAO
ROME: A bumper cereal crop had stabilised the world food supply, but food prices remained high in many developing countries, said the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in a report on Thursday. Easing of market conditions was reflected in the benchmark FAO Food Price Index, which had fallen by one-third from its peak in June 2008 .
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Global food supply improving, says FAO
Gargi Parsai NEW DELHI: With the second-highest global cereals crop expected this year and stocks replenished, the world food supply appeared less vulnerable to [external] shocks than it was during last year
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Diarrhoea spreads amid water crisis
People in the remote areas of the south and south-eastern districts, inundated by tidal surges associated with cyclone Aila on May 25, are still facing acute crisis of drinking water, food and medicine amid an alarming spread of water borne diseases.