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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NAC in place, govt moves faster on food security law
Ravish Tiwari New Delhi: The formal announcement of the constitution of the National Advisory Council (NAC) appears to have unleashed some action in the bureaucracy to speed up work on the proposed National Food Security law.
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Record procurement of wheat on support price
The process of procurement of wheat on support price was over on May 31. Till that date a record purchase of 35 lakh 27 thousand metric tonnes of wheat was done by the government agencies.
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Ensuring food security for all
THE National Food Security Bill, 2010 that aims to provide subsidised foodgrain to the very poor is welcome, but its definition of
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Plan panel to find a way to number urban poor
priyadarshi siddhanta To ensure the widest possible coverage under the proposed Food Security Act, the government has formally begun the process of identifying the number of people living below the poverty line (BPL) in the urban areas also. The Planning Commission has set up a high-level committee to devise a mechanism.
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No mid-day meal for 12cr children?
Akshaya Mukul | TNN New Delhi: Come July and 12 crore children benefiting from the mid-day meal (MDM) scheme may go without food as states have nearly run out of foodgrain and fresh supply is caught up in wrangling over the mode of payment.
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Divakaran contests FICCI's proposal to privatise PDS
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Kerala Food and Civil Supplies Minister C. Divakaran has come out strongly against the suggestion of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) that the Union government withdraw from grain procurement, storage and distribution under the Public Distribution System (PDS) and outsource these to private operators.
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Ficci proposes food stamps for poor as PDS fails to deliver
New Delhi: With the government
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How to persuade us to swallow nanofood
Imagine a new kind of food, dramatically lowered in fat, salt and sugar but tasting just as good as the real thing - in fact, it is the real thing. Thanks to nanotechnology, such foods could soon become reality. Yet their promising future is already in jeopardy.