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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Personal Thought: Monitor coarse grain prices
At your local kirana store, the middle income upwardly mobile Indian can be found buying branded atta which he proudly takes home and also a kilo of jwar and makka which he buys daily to feed the pigeons in his neighbourhood locality square. A mile away in a squatters colony, under a plastic shed a family of 5 also buys 1 kilo of makka daily to feed their hungry stomachs.
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Managing globalisation - the food crisis
GM foods can save the day
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Optimise the food-energy mix
Macro economic imbalances are the talk of the day. The ongoing global food crisis, with agflation sweeping across the world, is attracting heated discussion everywhere. Food and fuel have never been intertwined so closely. Since commentators in the West have identified the supply gap on account of increasing demand in the world's two fastest growing economies
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How not to tackle the food crisis
Paul Collier, author of The Bottom Billion, has written one of the most linked comments [hyperlink] in recent blogospheric history. Posted at Martin Wolf's quasi-blog, it's on the food crunch: * Chinese are eating cows which are eating grain which would otherwise have been eaten by Africa's poor. * Americans are turning grain into ethanol which would otherwise have been eaten by Africa's poor. * Europeans are banning genetically modified crops, which are Africa's main hope of growing enough grain to feed its own poor.
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US official adds fuel to Bush fire
THE PERPETUALLY outraged in the political spectrum on Tuesday got fresh ammunition for their anti-US rhetoric when the White House faulted India and China for the surge in oil prices. The statement comes three days after politicians here interpreted a statement of President Bush
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Food prices spark riots in Mogadishu
Mogadishu residents protested for a second day on Tuesday against food traders who are rejecting old currency notes, fuelling tension as residents go hungrier, witnesses said. Hundreds of youths barricaded roads, stoned vehicles and burned tyres in parts of the bombed-out Somali capital demanding that traders accept the worn-out Somali notes from residents desperately in need of food and other essentials.
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Reasons for price rise (editorial)
The current crisis proves that agroenergy is not responsible for price rise. The deterioration of terms of trade is one of the historic factors behind underdevelopment, which should be understood not as a stage of development but rather a specific and distorted form in which peripheral economies are inserted into the world capitalist system. For the majority of these economies, colonial relations built around the export of raw materials were the primary cause of this trait.
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Philippine government faces up to food supply challenge
Sir, Contrary to Martin Wolf's article "Food crisis is a chance to reform global agriculture' (April 30), the riots or disturbances that have, unfortunately, taken place in some parts of the world have not occurred in the Philippines. President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and her administration have been working diligently to address challenges arising from the slowdown in the global economy combined with the spike in high oil and food prices.
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Public distribution system and social exclusion
In striving for "efficiency' by means of narrow targeting, households that should be entitled to basic food security through the PDS have been left out.
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"People not getting promised rations'
The Leader of the Opposition in the Delhi Assembly, Jagdish Mukhi, on Tuesday charged that the Sheila Dikshit Government had not kept its promise of providing 25 kg of wheat and 10 kg of rice per month to ration card holders and only managed to supply them 13 to 14 kg of wheat and 5 to 6 kg of rice. Terming this a ''failure' of the Delhi Government, the BJP leader said the inability of the administration to provide sufficient rations to the poor and the downtrodden had had an adverse impact on their financial health in these times of high inflation and soaring prices.