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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Mizoram halts Bru repatriation
AIZAWL, Nov 26
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Devils in the delivery: Why cash, stamps for food will never work
Arecent paper by Kaushik Basu, the chief economic adviser to the government, titled,
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FCI to improve food grain supply to Northeast
AGARTALA - The Food Corporation of India (FCI) has embarked on a Rs 550-crore project to broaden storage facilities and maintain uninterrupted supply of food grain to the northeastern states, a top official said here Thursday. "The corporation has started implementation of the Rs 550-crore project to build big godowns, storage facilities in most of the districts of seven northeastern states," F
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On some fatal fallacies
Continuing the debate on the Deaton and Dreze analysis of food and nutrition in India, it is argued that the latter’s analysis is defective because (i) it does not look at direct and indirect cereal consumption
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From calorie fundamentalism to cereal accounting
Utsa Patnaik’s new critique of our work on food and nutrition is wholly unconvincing. Her analysis of international patterns of “total” cereal consumption, interesting as it may be, does not invalidate
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BPL families in Karnataka get only 20-kg grain
The below poverty line (BPL) and Antodaya Anna Yojana (AAY) families in Karantaka get only 20 kg instead of the scheduled 35 kg of food grain every month due to paucity of supply by the Centre, the Supreme Court has been told. Out of about 5.28-crore population in Karnataka, 25 per cent, numbering 1.38 crore people averaging 37 per cent nationally, belong to below poverty line (BPL) and get ben
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SC seeks govt reply on BPL food supply
The Supreme Court on Thursday sought Centre's response on eight important points related to firming up the food distribution system to the below poverty line (BPL) families in the country. The eight points were framed by the apex court mainly in the light of Justice Wadhwa committee report, agriculture and food ministry's earlier affidavit and the vast difference in the number of BPL data of th
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Act today to boost rice supply: experts
Global meet's call to reverse inefficient farming methods HANOI: Urgent action is needed to reverse inefficient farming methods and boost the world's supply of rice to prevent rising poverty and hunger, experts told a major world rice congress on Tuesday.
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A decentralized and holistic approach for grain management in India
The recent news items on the loss of stored grains in the godowns of the Food Corporation of India (FCI) created a huge uproar not only due to the wastage of grains but also because it was the time when the Government was planning the National Food Security Act amidst increasing inflation in the prices of edible commodities.