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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Re 1 scheme can't ensure food security
THE state government's initiative to distribute rice at Re 1 per kg to the poor cannot ensure food security, unless and until other essential commodities needed to tackle malnourishment are simultaneously given at subsidised prices to the people, said Sabine Pabst, Asia coordinator of Food First Information and Action Network (FIAN), a German-based NGO.
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Discourage sugar intake, encourage yellow peas, says note for PM on price rise
In a note prepared for Prime Minister Manmohan Singh
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Greenhouse gas emission footprints and energy use benchmarks for eight U.S. cities
A hybrid life cycle-based trans-boundary greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions footprint is elucidated at the city-scale and evaluated for 8 US cities.
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Skip 1 meal a week: Dharia on food scarcity
Pune Students should sacrifice one meal a week as the country is reeling under scarcity of food grains, said founder president of Vanrai and former Union Minister Mohan Dharia.
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Over 4 million people in need of food assistance in southern Sudan: U.N.
The number of people in southern Sudan in need of food assistance has more than quadrupled from almost one million in 2009 to 4.3 million this year because of conflict and drought, the U.N. food agency said on Tuesday.
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PM asks states to shed false sense of food security
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today urged state governments to improve food productivity and address concerns of food inflation. At the same time, he assured all support from the Union government in this regard.
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PM to States: give essentials at reasonable rates
Gargi Parsai NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday expressed concern at the rising prices of essential commodities and urged the State governments to use all instruments at their disposal to make available these items to the poor and others at reasonable rates.
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Higher output not enough to cool food prices
Food prices have been on fire over the past several months
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Regional trade opportunities for Asian agriculture
Trade in food and other agricultural products is increasingly important across East and Southeast Asia, where high-income Asian economies have driven significant agricultural expansion, and the momentous growth of the People
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Restore ban on wheat futures: Cong to Pawar
Facing flak from the Congress for his failure to control prices of essential commodities, Consumer Affairs Minister Sharad Pawar on Wednesday came under fresh pressure from the ruling party, which demanded that ban on futures trading in wheat be restored.