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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After Sonia push, kickstart today for Food Security Act
Unable to identify the actual number of BPL families but facing growing pressure from Congress president Sonia Gandhi to put in place a National Food Security Act (NFSA) at the earliest, the Centre could look at a proposal to enforce the legislation with the poorest of the poor
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Poor quality food grain at fair price shops leading to price rise
Prices of essential commodities, such as rice, sugar and wheat, have increased due to supply of poor quality food grains by the fair price shops. Addressing a press conference here today, Michael N Syiem, leader of an NGO Mait Shaphrang Movement, said that people are buying most of the essential commodities from the open market leading to price rice.
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Precision agriculture and food security
Precision agriculture comprises a set of technologies that combines sensors, information systems, enhanced machinery, and informed management to optimize production by accounting for variability and uncertainties within agricultural systems.
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Measuring food insecurity
Food security is a growing concern worldwide. More than 1 billion people are estimated to lack sufficient dietary energy availability, and at least twice that number suffer micronutrient deficiencies. Because indicators inform action, much current research focuses on improving food insecurity measurement.
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Food security: The challenge of feeding 9 billion people
Continuing population and consumption growth will mean that the global demand for food will increase for at least another 40 years. Growing competition for land, water, and energy, in addition to the overexploitation of fisheries, will affect our ability to produce food, as will the urgent requirement to reduce the impact of the food system on the environment.
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Food prices are likely to remain high till 2026
Food prices are likely to remain high even till 2026 because of the demand-supply situation. Production has not kept pace with demand and so the current food inflation and food supply constraints have been aggravated by last year's drought situation. However, drought was not the reason for high prices according to a report by Credit Suisse.
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Could less meat mean more food?
Here's a simple idea you may have heard for improving food security: Eat less meat. The logic goes like this. People in the developed world eat a huge amount of animal protein. And consumption of meat, eggs, and milk is already growing globally as people in poorer nations get richer and shift their diets.
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CPM demands food security act
BHUBANESWAR: The State committee of the CPM today castigated the Central and the State governments for their failure to contain the prices of essential commodities.
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Why prices won't fall
The world over and in textbooks of basic economics, price is defined as a function of supply and demand. In India, there is a third variable. It is called politics. Look around and evidence is strewn all over. Everything that is in the domain of private India is getting cheaper--from mobile phones to cars to anything that is manufactured.
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Pawar downplays criticism against him for food inflation
Sanjay Jog / Mumbai February 8, 2010, 1:01 IST Seeks states