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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Is urbanization contributing to higher food prices?
Urbanization has been mentioned as one possible cause of higher food prices, and in this paper we examine some of the suggested links between urbanization and food prices.
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Food security: New NAC chief may vet the Bill
Faced with acute criticism, including that the proposed blueprint of its flagship National Food Security Act (NFSA) was contempt of apex court
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What food coupons can and cannot do
Vouchers have some but not all the answers to current ills
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Food for rumination
The question of food security in this country is back in business with the Cabinet clearing the food bill and the Supreme Court gearing up to consider a report commissioned by it on the definition of poverty and related issues. The point is simple. The Bill that will be introduced in Parliament envisages providing 25 kg of food grain at subsidised rates to the poor. But it does not define poor.
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Pathway to food security for all
The proposed Food Security Bill should adopt a three-pronged strategy that constitutes a Universal Public Distribution System for all, low-cost foodgrains to the needy, and convergence in the delivery of nutrition safety net programmes.
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Gathering Storm
UNLESS THE prices of vegetables skyrocket and become a scandal
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Enabling whom?
In keeping with the overall approach of an
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Danger of inflation
Government inaction on food-price inflation amounts to an implicit declaration that it is inevitable and has little to do with policy.
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Delivering food security
Will coupons work better than commodities?
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Govt begins BPL census
AMIT AGNIHOTRI NEW DELHI The rural development ministry has initiated pilot projects across the country to show the new methodology to identify the poor Aiming to reform the social sector and slash its huge food subsidy bill, the government has started the much-awaited census of below poverty line (BPL) persons. Keeping in mind the recommendations of the N.C.