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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Swaminathan for multi-pronged strategy to tackle hunger
CHENNAI: The worrisome trends in global hunger, exacerbated by high food prices, must be tackled with a multi-pronged strategy to increase small farm productivity and profitability, raise non-farm incomes and strengthen nutrition safety nets, M.S.Swaminathan, chairman of the M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, said.
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Food insecurity reaches crisis point
The severe food insecurity gripping Orissa for decades has scaled new heights this year, thanks to an abnormal rise in prices of food items coupled with a devastating flood affecting 60 percent of the districts.
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FAO estimates 2% rise in paddy output
Dilip Kumar Jha / Mumbai October 16, 2008, 0:42 IST The country
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Is China ready for GM rice?
In an effort to avoid a food crisis as the population grows, China is putting its weight behind genetically modified strains of the country's staple food crop. Jane Qiu explores the reasons for the unprecedented push.
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World food scarcity and the challenges of climate change
Rarely has the World Food Day assumed greater meaning than in present times, as rapidly rising food prices risk increasing the number of hungry in the world,' according to the Food And Agriculture Organization (FAO).
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Sri Lanka government plans to send food every week to Wanni
Sri Lanka government said yesterday that it plans to send convoys every week carrying 750- metric tons of food to the uncleared areas of the Wanni as 29 of the 51 trucks in the first convoy already reached the destinations and unloaded their shipment.
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Hunger removal is State Governments aim
FOR THE PEOPLE: Union Minister of State for Environment and Forests S. Regupathy, right, inaugurating the sale of spices and condiments at subsidised rates through a fair price shop in Nagapattinam on Friday.
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Cuba Faces Food Shortages After Hurricanes
Cuban markets offered a dwindling selection of food and a growing expanse of empty shelves on Wednesday as food shortages the government warned about after hurricanes Gustav and Ike became increasingly evident. The shortages were exacerbated in the Cuban capital when shipments from food suppliers slowed in a conflict with the government over newly imposed price controls.
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Towards the ideal of a hunger-free India
M.S. Swaminathan Achieving the goal of nutrition security for all Indians will need a fusion of political will and action, professional skill, and peoples
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Centre plans green corridor for farmers
WARM GREETINGS: Governor Surjit Singh Barnala and Union Minister T.R. Baalu at a seminar in Chennai. CHENNAI: The Centre is proposing to set up a dedicated