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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Seed aid, agribusiness and the food crisis
The world food crisis, rapidly defined by those in power as a problem of insufficient production, has become a trojan horse to get corporate seeds, fertilisers and, surreptitiously, market systems into poor countries. As past experience shows, what looks like
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Atoms for food: a global partnership
Food supply is an issue for millions of people worldwide facing soaring market prices, impacts of climate change on food harvests, and other agricultural problems. With the world population estimated to reach 9 billion by 2050, problems of food security demand significant advances in agricultural productivity and competitiveness.
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Improving farm-to-market linkages through contract farming: a case study of smallholder dairying in India
Contract farming is emerging as an important form of vertical coordination in the agrifood supply chain in India, and its socioeconomic consequences are attracting considerable attention in public policy debates. This study is an empirical assessment of the costs and benefits of contract farming in milk using
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Who will grow food?
<i> Kerala
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5 lakh in grip of starvation-like condition: Survey
Krishnagar: Nearly five lakh people in the state live in
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Bellagio 1969: The green revolution
Agriculture in developing countries was transformed when scientists met aid officials and convinced them to invest in research. Lowell S. Hardin was there, and believes today's food crisis demands a similar vision.
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Direct cash transfer no panacea by itself
Mihir Shah Any anti-poverty programme will work only if it leads to an end to dependence on doles. To end this dependence, sustainable livelihoods must be created for the poor.
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Re 1 rice cooks up stink
It is not fit for consumption. When the rice is boiled, a foul smell emanates, which makes one nauseous, says farmer Tirunelveli
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War and Drought Threaten Afghan Food Supply
A pitiable harvest this year has left small farmers all over central and northern Afghanistan facing hunger, and aid officials are warning of an acute food shortage this winter for nine million Afghan
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BPL families to get 35 kg wheat every month
Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda today announced to issue 35 kg of wheat per month to all 12.98 lakh below poverty line (BPL) families and three litres of kerosene per month to all 10 lakh