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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US will give $8.4m to avert food crisis
The United States will give $8.4 million to Pakistan through the World Food Programme to provide approximately 11,000 metric tons of wheat for over 1,600,000 people, including students of 3,200 school
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Centre to release 900k-tonne wheat
Bs Reporter / New Delhi September 18, 2008, 3:49 IST Open market sale to check inflationary trends in food items.
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Seven lakh to get rice at Re.1 under new scheme
TIRUCHI: About seven lakh ration card holders in the district would benefit from the supply of rice at Re.1 a kg through the public distribution system, said Transport Minister K.N. Nehru. Inaugurating the supply of the subsidised rice at a ration shop at Woraiyur here on Tuesday, Mr. Nehru said that about 12,000 tonnes of rice, worth Rs.28 crore in the open market, would be supplied to the cardholders through 1,016 PDS shops in the district every month.
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5.79 lakh people to benefit from rice scheme
DINDIGUL: A total of 5.79 lakh people in Dindigul and over 3.75 lakh people in Theni district will benefit from the Re 1 a kg rice scheme of the State government. Launching the scheme at a fair price shop here on Tuesday, Revenue Minister I. Periasami said that sale of rice, condiments and spices at subsidised rates in ration shops will reduce burden of the poor. People should make use of the scheme.
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Nazim approves changes in food bylaws
The city government has decided to revamp the existing system of checking the sale and supply of food items, eatables and drinks at hotels, restaurants, shops and other food outlets across the city by bringing changes in the food laws. At a meeting of the city government
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Reduction in wheat quota deepens flour crisis
Due to wrong policies of the Sindh food department, Hyderabad is once again faced with an acute shortage of wheat and if the department failed to release the full quota of wheat to chakki owners, they will be forced to close down their chakkis. President of the Atta Chakki Owners Social Welfare Association Haji Nawab Ali said this while addressing a news conference at the press club here on Tuesday. He said that during the first week of September, the chakki owners were supplied 48 bags of wheat per chakki and wheat flour was made available to people according to government rates.
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Rising poverty (Editorial)
FOUR with six zeroes looks tidy as a figure, but it gives us an uneasy feeling when the World Bank says that four million people in the country have been pushed back further below the poverty line, due to abnormal rise in food price.
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Rationed rice for the flood-hit
The Malda zilla parishad sabhadhipati has questioned the manner in which the district administration is distributing relief among the flood victims in the affected blocks of Harishchandrapur, Ratua and Manikchak. The Congress sabhadhipati, Sabina Yasmeen, who visited Harishchandrapur last evening, said the relief distributed to the affected people was inadequate.
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Maggi, govts instant solution for flood-hit
Noodles Worth Rs 10 Lakh, 10 Water Treatment Plants To Be Distributed In Bihar Kounteya Sinha | TNN New Delhi: Maggi