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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Lessons from BPL Censuses
V. K. Ramachandran, Y. Usami and Biplab Sarkar To perpetuate a system that assigns a household to a single BPL/APL category in circumstances in which poverty is multi-dimensional is not only bad economics, but unconscionable as well.
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Plan panel to give revised estimates of BPL families
THE government on Tuesday said the Planning Commission will give revised estimates of families living below poverty line within a month for effective implementation of targeted PDS and other welfare schemes.
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Food security assured for Nagalands poor
KOHIMA, April 19: The Nagaland Government envisages implementing the Targeted Public Distribution System (TPDS) to ensure food security for the poor. The distribution system benefits identified poor families under the Antyodaya Anna Yojana (AAY) and other population living below poverty line.
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Protest against agriculture policies
Ananya Dutta KOLKATA: The peasants' wing of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), the Krishak Sabha, protested against the Centre's policies on agriculture, its removal of subsidies and its impairment of the Public Distribution System at a large rally here on Monday.
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EGoM to decide on poverty estimate
Devika Banerji / New Delhi April 20, 2010, 1:20 IST The empowered group of ministers (EGoM) will decide on the final poverty estimates to be used for the Food Security Bill, though the hurdle of building a consensus within states is yet to be overcome.
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Change in Bytes `UID will ensure food security'
SRIRAM RAGHAVAN
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Food security for all
Arjun Sengupta
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Searching for a third way in Dantewada
The interests of both the State and the Maoists are served by reducing the complex and many-layered tragedy unfolding in the forests of Dantewada to a battle between Good and Evil. For the Maoists, the people are subordinate to the revolution; for the government, the people are a minor expendable detail in the mineral-rich territory they live in.
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Plan panel meet on FSA today
Will Discuss Tendulkar Committee Figure On BPL Population
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Does PDS mean Please Dont Supply?
P M Raghunandan, Bangalore, Apr 14, DHNS: Rise in prices of essential commodities may have scourged the middle class most, but they are not ready to consume the PDS (public distribution system) rice (also called ration akki) available at lesser price despite it being good quality.