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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Betterment of poor is top priority: CM
The Chief Minister Shri Shivraj Singh Chouhan has said that betterment of the poor is the top priority of the state government. He launched Annapurna Yojana and laid the foundation of a Rs. 108 crore Narmada water project at Khandwa today. The Minister for Tribal Welfare and Forests Kunwar Vijay Shah presided over the function.
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Curtailed food quota for BPL families in MP
Putting the party and administration on election mode, the BJP government in Madhya Pradesh has formally launched the revamped food security sheme ''Annapoorna Yojana'' with pomp and show involving chief ministers of all BJP-ruled states. Taking a firm stand not to reduce the number of families living Below Poverty Line, the BJP government preferred to accommodate all BPL families under the scheme by reducing the monthly foodgrain quota by 15 kg per family.
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Food crisis due to better diets in India, China: Rice
"Apparent improvement" in the diets of people in India and China and consequent food export caps is among the "four causes" that has led to the current global food crisis, feels US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice. The US' top diplomat specifically pointed to exchange rate and the simple "inability" of getting food to the people as being responsible for the worrisome food scarcity.
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Food subsidy
In reply to a question in Lok Sabha on April 21, 2008, the Food and Agriculture Minister, Sharad Pawar admitted that while a total of 102.8 million ration cards against BPL (below poverty line) people were issued, there were actually in the country only 65.2 million BPL families. It means that 37 million below poverty line-card holders or as much as 35 per cent of India's total number of beneficiaries under public distribution system do not exist in actuality.
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Reform in PDS system is essential: CM's stern warning to blackmarketeers
Chief Minister, Shivraj Singh Chouhan has warned the hoarders and black marketers of strict action. He said that if PDS wheat is sold in the black market then strict action would be taken against the sellers. He told in Dhar that any kind of irregularity towards poor would not be tolerated. On the other hand the Chief Minister writing a letter to Prime Minister demanded to sanction 35 kg grains per month to 62 lakh 50 thousand BPL card holders in the state. Chief Minister's concern over the people belong to below poverty line can be understood.
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Annapurna Yojna in 20 districts today
The much-hyped Mukhayamantri Annapurna Yojna will be launched in 20 districts of the State today. The scheme will be launched in consumer awareness camps, where food grains will be distributed to the Below Poverty Line (BPL) ration card holder families. Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan on Saturday had launched the Mukhayamantri Annapurna Yojna at Bhopal and Indore.
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Venkaiah hints at right to food'
Senior BJP leader M. Venkaiah Naidu hinted on Saturday that if the NDA was voted to power in the next general election, it would seriously consider amending the Constitution to include the "right to food" as a fundamental right of every citizen. The occasion was the launch of the state government's "Mukhya Mantri Annapurna Yojana" under which families holding BPL ration cards would be given wheat and rice at Rs 3 and Rs 4.50 per kg, respectively.
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Wages of inaction
A food security system based on indigenous produce can alone combat the rising prices in India, reports Vibha Sharma TDP president N Chandrababu Naidu weighs vegetables with a balance during a dharna against price rise jointly organised by the TDP, CPI, CP(M) and SP. TDP president N Chandrababu Naidu weighs vegetables with a balance during a dharna against price rise jointly organised by the TDP, CPI, CP(M) and SP.
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Foodgrain quota issue rocks Parliament
The issue of reduction in foodgrain allocation to Kerala rocked both the Houses of Parliament. While the Left members staged a walkout in the Rajya Sabha, their counterparts in the Lok Sabha also registered their protest asking the government to raise the allocation to the State.
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Global crisis in food
Global food prices have witnessed an unprecedented surge in recent months. The increase in prices, which initially started with corn and wheat, has now engulfed all cereals, and vegetable oils, meat, milk and most fruits and vegetables. The food price index (base 2005=100) of the International Monetary Fund, which covers a large number of food items, reached 170 in March 2008; the highest value of the index in the past quarter century was 143 in November 1980. (Editorial) April 26-May 2, 2008