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 bill a win-win: Brownie pts & savings
New Delhi: Pragmatic politics and sound economics are not supposed to go together, but the national food security bill may prove the popular adage wrong.
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Replacing the PDS
The debates about the Right to Food Bill are essentially about the scope of the PDS and not its form. In the NGO perspective, the PDS should be universal and entitlements should not be less than the monthly current quota of 35 kg per household. The
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Centre buys food coupons idea: Basu
Plans Afoot To Offer Coupons To Small Farmers For Purchase Of Fertilisers Too
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Food security bill ignores Sonias proposals
Suggestions To Set Up Food Tribunals And Offer Direct Cash-Transfer Facility Didn
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APL food price hike deferred
AMIT AGNIHOTRI Keen to slash its massive food subsidy bill, the government on Friday deferred a proposal to hike the Central Issue Price (CIP) of food grains sold through the Public Distribution System (PDS) to the Above Poverty Line (APL) families, due to political considerations.
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EGoM clears food security bill, rules out wheat exports for now
AN EMPOWERED group of ministers (EGoM) headed by finance minister Pranab Mukherjee on Thursday cleared the draft food security bill, ruled out wheat exports for the present despite overwhelming stocks, approved a decision to increase foodgrain allocation for the above poverty line (APL) consumers of the public distribution system (PDS) and endorsed the ban on pulses export by a year up to March 20
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Food security: Govt will give cash if it cant provide grains
The Centre has decided to ask the states to set up a Food Security Fund from which they will have to mandatorily pay eligible below-poverty-line (BPL) families an allowance were they not to get their quota of food grains as specified in the Food Security Act.
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Maharashtra not fully utilising Central grain allotments
Rahi Gaikwad MUMBAI: Hundreds of people across the city gathered on Sunday to air their grievances over the persistent shortage of food grain and its dismal quality at a number of fair price shops (FPS).
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Food grains under PDS released for Kolar district
The Department of Food and Civil Supplies has released food grains to various categories of ration card holders for the month of March 2010.