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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PDS fails in feeding India's poor
India's Targeted Public Distribution System (tpds) gives subsidised essential commodities to economically weaker households. Till 1997, the system had supplied subsidised commodities to
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Retrospect and prospect of food security in North Eastern Hilly region of India
This paper aims to review the existing status, scope and prospects of food securities in the North eastern hilly region (NEHR) states at the macro level and at the same time ground level reality of food security, its status and position at the households' level.
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Indian agriculture: In search of second green revolution
India needs second green revolution to bring food security to its billion plus population, to remove distress of farming community and to make its agriculture globally competitive. For achieving these goals, yield rates of foodgrains, pulses, oilseeds, dairying and poultry, horticultural crops and vegetables needs to be enhanced.
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India needs to overhaul its approach towards agriculture
the circle of Green Revolution seems to be complete. Punjab's agricultural growth of 1.86 per cent last year was just a plot in a declining graph since 1970. It is clear that the farming system
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India must focus on rainfed farming
<table width="579" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" background="files/images/20070731/px.gif"> <tr><td valign="top"></td> <td colspan="2" valign="top"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">There was a time when it was said that the Indian budget was a gamble on the monsoons.
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Organic, With Pesticides
Some farmers in China are taking advantage of confusing rules to falsely label food
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Book One Valley and A Thousand Dams, Nationalism and Development
Book>> Daniel Klingensmith,
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Greenhouse Effect
Sushanth Darekar, 24, lives in the village of Lonikalbhor, 20 km off the Pune-Solapur highway. It is the middle of summer but the sweltering heat does not bother him. After a hard day
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Give small players in food retail a new deal
the unrest over Reliance's plans to enter the retail fresh vegetable and fruit market is only to be expected. It is just about possible that its entry into this sector will not completely drive out
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Drought in Ukraine affects grain exports
With Ukraine in the grip of a severe drought, industry analysts recently predicted a slash in grain exports in the country. The country's agricultural ministry said drought had damaged crop spread