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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The taste of tiny: Putting nanofoods on the menu
Nothing says summer holidays quite like ice cream. On a hot afternoon by the sea, there's little to beat the simple pleasure of a cooling scoop of your favourite flavour. Can food get much more satisfying than this?
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Arunachal facing food scarcity
After Manipur, it is now the turn of Arunachal Pradesh to complain about scarcity of food items, with the State Government complaining about irregular Public Distribution System (PDS) in the State.
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States allege bias in food subsidy
AMIT AGNIHOTRI NEW DELHI Non-Congress nruled states insist that they are being discriminated against on the key issue of food subsidy.
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Cash is kinder than kind
If we cannot spruce up our PDS, the author Manisha Priyam argues, we can wind it up because some Latin American countries have come up with a very workable system; direct cash transfer rather than help in kind.
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Turning the PDS around
Dr Alok Shukla is among those civil servants who received awards for excellence in public administration from the prime minister on April 21. As secretary, food and civil supplies department, Chhattisgarh, he, along with two of his colleagues, has been credited with turning the much-maligned PDS into a success story.
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Efforts on to mitigate food crisis in Arunachal
ITANAGAR, May 14: With the PDS carriage contractors threatening to quit service if their pending bills are not cleared by the FCI, Arunachal Pradesh is in the verge facing an acute food crisis, which is already in an alarming situation according to reports.
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Are states doing as much as the centre does?
<p>The centre and states usually have a very stormy relationship. I would want to draw attention to the different aspects of this relationship. We live in a federal structure of government with three levels; centre, state and the panchayati raj institutions.</p>
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Shrinking families force govt to review plan for BPL grain supply
Nistula Hebbar, SANJEEB MUKHERJEE New Delhi: The average Indian family size is shrinking fast. With increasing migration from villages to urban areas and across states, families are becoming more nuclear with just above four members. While the government is crunching the latest numbers, it has already started impacting food grain allocation plans under the proposed Food Security Act.
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Mismanaging food
Time to rethink food procurement policy
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India Shining or India Starving?
INDIA BECAME independent soon after the Great Bengal Famine that claimed two million lives. An independent and free India reclaimed her food sovereignty and food security.