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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Food security assessment, 2010-20
Food security in 70 developing countries is estimated to have improved between 2009 and 2010, in part due to economic recovery in many of these countries. The number of food-insecure people in the developing countries analyzed by ERS researchers is estimated to decrease about 7.5 percent from 2009 to 882 million in 2010.
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The political economy of trade and food security
Securing enough food to meet the needs of a growing global population requires managing the complex interplay between farming at home and trade with others. Andrea Wolverton, Anita Regmi and Ann Tutwiler look into challenges of political economy that undernourishment presents and how donors, such as the US, may be able to help.
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Mandatory cheap foodgrains for poor may cause hike in oil prices
Gargi Parsai NEW DELHI: It is the availability of adequate foodgrains to meet the mandatory requirements under the proposed National Food Security Bill that worries the government, not the enhanced subsidy such a move would entail.
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MP first state in the country to push for food security for the poor
The recent allegations made are uncalled for and can be seen as an attempt by bidders disqualified due to not fulfilling the tender requirements. Companies like Glodyne who have been crying foul did not even have an ISO certification to bid for the project and have failed miserably in states like Bihar to execute projects of nation building NEREGA it took on.
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Raise PDS grain price for APL population
Gargi Parsai NEW DELHI: The government may shift to per capita allocation of foodgrains and raise the price of wheat and rice meant for the Above the Poverty Line (APL) population under the Public Distribution System (PDS) to meet the objectives of the proposed National Food Security Bill.
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NAC to review food bill at July 1 meet
AMIT AGNIHOTR The National Advisory Council, headed by Congress president Sonia Gandhi, will review the draft Food Security Bill at its first full-scale meeting on July 1.
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Stop futures trading in food to control prices: Tripura government
AGARTALA, June 13: The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) led Left Front government in Tripura on Friday urged the Central government stop futures trading in food commodities to control the rising prices of essential goods.
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Put millets back on the plate
One of the key demands of the Right to Food Campaign for the National Food Security Act is to re-introduce nutritious millets to government food programmes like the public distribution system. Millets like bajra, jowar, kodo, kutki and ragi among hundreds of other varieties have sustained communities for close to 10,000 years in India.
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Food security to top agenda at first NAC meeting
Smita Gupta NEW DELHI: Food security is likely to top the resurrected National Advisory Council's (NAC) agenda when its members gather here on Thursday for their introductory meeting. They will also meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
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Fresh hopes over food security
The June 1 announcement by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, while releasing the Report Card for the first year of the second term of the United Progressive Alliance Government, that the Food Security Bill was under preparation and that the Bill would be placed in the public domain for scrutiny and wider consultation has raised hopes about early enactment of the law to ensure the people's right to fo