Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Are missing palm trees causing more lighting deaths in Bihar appearing in ‘The Times of India’ dated 29.05.2025". The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Are missing palm trees causing …
Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led NDA government has taken a number of steps for the technological upgradation of the Public Distribution System (PDS) in the country. According to the government, multiple reforms and steps such as Depot Online System, user credentials, e-mail gateways, digitization of beneficiary database have been taken to …
Each week, Lucia Thedzi and her five children go one or two days without eating. Some weeks, the family survives on nuts the size of golf balls but with meager flesh inside. Living in a small village on the hot, flat plains of Chikwawa in southern Malawi, they have little …
Organisations launch five-point action plan to boost business collaboration and customer awareness of food waste reduction efforts A five-point action plan for tackling food waste at a consumer, business and policy level has been launched by Unilever and communications charity Hubbub. Developed with the support of WRAP following consultation with …
An Act To authorize a comprehensive strategic approach for United States foreign assistance to developing countries to reduce global poverty and hunger, achieve food and nutrition security, promote inclusive, sustainable, agricultural-led economic growth, improve nutritional outcomes, especially for women and children, build resilience among vulnerable populations, and for other purposes. …
Even though American consumers throw away about 80 billion pounds of food a year, only about half are aware that food waste is a problem. Even more, researchers have identified that most people perceive benefits to throwing food away, some of which have limited basis in fact. A study published …
ZIMBABWE's food insecure population in the rural areas will increase from 2,8 million to 4,1 million people during the peak of the hunger period from January to March 2017, according to the Zimbabwe Vulnerability Assessment Committee (ZimVAC) report. This translates to approximately 42 percent of rural households, representing a rise …
Dakar — NASA has launched a hub in Niger that will use space-based observations to improve food security A drive by NASA to stream climate data to West African nations using its earth-observing satellites could boost crop production in a region hit hard by climate change, experts say. NASA last …
Kampala — Send a cow Uganda Non Government Organization has launched five years strategic plan which will see over 200,000 Ugandan families supported to overcome food Insecurity challenges. The 2015/2020 plan will focus on promoting food security among 260,6000 households , promoting environmental protection among households in over 40 districts …
Some 18 million people from seven southern Africa countries require emergency food aid, according to the latest report by World Food Programme. The food security crisis in the region has been attributed to El Nino weather patterns which triggered unexpected droughts and prolonged dry spells last year. Lesotho, Mozambique, Malawi, …
WASHINGTON — A bipartisan bill promoting global food security, resilience and nutrition could make hunger history, President Obama announced Wednesday during the White House Summit on Global Development. The Global Food Security Act of 2016, which the president signed Wednesday, determined it is in the U.S. national security interest to …
ZAMBIA’S annual national consumption was slightly above 1,500,000 metric tonnes by the end of 2015. THE bullies of the airwaves who have perfected the art of humiliating guests who do not support their preferred political party during live phone-in programmes on the privately-owned Radio Phoenix met their match last Friday. …
Muscat: Oman has been ranked second in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) for food security, availability and quality on Global Food Security Index 2016. According to the report, which was published for June 2016 by the Economist Intelligence Unit, Oman is one of the newest additions to the report, where …
The United Nations Children's Emergency Fund (Unicef) has estimated that almost a quarter of a million children in Nigeria's Borno state, which was once controlled by the Islamic militant group Boko Haram, are living in dire conditions because of unavailability of food and medical care. The severity of the crisis …
MUMBAI: Satisfied with the Aurangabad bench of the Bombay high court setting aside a crucial clause in the tendering process for the supply of nutritious food to children aged below 6 and lactating mothers under the Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) programme, a petitioner, Kirti Karwa, has decided to meet …
Humanitarian convoys have uncovered emergency levels of severe acute malnutrition and famine-like conditions in Nigeria's Borno State, particularly in 15 satellite camps, where some 275,000 people are living, the United Nations relief aid wing has warned. According to a report from the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs …
Americans throw away almost as much food as they eat because of a “cult of perfection”, deepening hunger and poverty, and inflicting a heavy toll on the environment. Vast quantities of fresh produce grown in the US are left in the field to rot, fed to livestock or hauled directly …
Ash content is now allowed up to 1%, the new notification has proposed to increase it to 2% for seasonings or tastemakers The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has issued a draft notification proposing doubling of permitted ash content in noodles and pasta. Ash content is now …
The United Nations' food agency said on Thursday it needed $730 million over the next 12 months for relief in seven southern African countries hit hard by a blistering drought and faced a $610 million shortfall. The World Food Programme (WFP) said in a statement the seven countries were Malawi, …
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has announced that, at least 2.4 million people in the northeast are under threat of short food supply. The agency said the shortage is due to the activities of Boko Haram insurgency, which has reduced farming and food production in the region. The …
Every year around one-third of worldwide food production is wasted or lost around the globe, entailing the simultaneous loss of all the resources - water, soil, agricultural inputs, feed - that went into its production. The environmental impact of food loss and waste is enormous: A recent FAO study calculated …
