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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Womens wisdom and indigenous human healthcare practices
In the study, an effort was made to explore the diversities of indigenous knowledge systems pertaining to human health among rural women of the purposively selected villages of eastern part of Azamgarh district, Uttar Pradesh. Data pertaining to study were collected by using the participatory approach, group discussions, participant learning and personal interview methods.
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Our sick farms, our Infected food
Agriculture has fueled the eruption of human civilization. Efficiently raised, affordable crops and livestock feed our growing population, and hunger has largely been banished from the developed world as a result. Yet there are reasons to believe that we are beginning to lose control of our great agricultural machine.
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Use of indigenous knowledge by women in a Nigerian rural community
The study investigated Rural Women
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Identifying our climate foodprint: assessing and reducing the global warming impacts of food and agriculture in the U.S.
As national governments move toward negotiating the next international agreement on climate change, and states and regions across the United States work to meet already established state greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction targets, what is the role of agriculture and food systems? According to several recent estimates, these sectors are significant contributors to global
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Lift ban on non-basmati rice export: Rice millers
Crisis of foodgrains storage Sarbjit Dhaliwal Tribune News Service Jalandhar, March 26 As rice storage crisis has deepened in Punjab, rice millers , who have halted paddy shelling,, have urged the Union government to lift ban on the export of non-basmati rice.
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Is cheap rice a poll game changer?
In 2008, Six States Saw Parties Promising, Or Govts Giving, Subsidized Grain To Poor
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Rice staple for BJP too
Main opposition party, that till recently maintained that economic populism is anti-welfare, is going all out on populist announcements in its manifesto SAFFRON PARTY GOES AN EXTRA STEP TO DENT CONGRESS
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Future fish
The only way to meet the increasing demand for fish is through aquaculture. Daniel Cressey explores the challenges for fish farmers and what it means for dinner plates in 2030.
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Rice at Rs 3/kg will cost govt Rs 5,700 crore
New Delhi: If the Congress wins the election and implement its promise to give rice at Rs 3 per kg to below poverty line (BPL) families, the exchequer will have to bear an additional burden of around Rs 5,700 crore. The total subsidy on giving rice at concessional rate of Rs 3 per kg to BPL family will increased to Rs 12,500 crore.
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Rural non-farm economy: A note on the impact of crop-diversification and land-conversion in India
Crop-diversification under the integrated institutional set-up of corporate contract farming