Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Akhilesh Kumar Vs State of Uttar Pradesh & Others dated 23/05/2025. The matter related to illegal mining activites carried out by Jai Maa Chandrika Enterprises, Rajendra Nagar, village Kabari, district Mahoba, Uttar Pradesh. The applicant also alleged about illegal sale …
Should the world go on a diet in 2014? There has been a dramatic increase in the numbers of overweight or obese people in the past 30 years. Previously considered a problem in richer countries, the biggest rises are in middle income countries and the developing world. 'Future Diets' traces …
As in previous years, residents of 11 VDCs in the northern belt of Kolti region in Bajura are reeling under acute food crisis. The crops they had harvested is over and the state-owned food corporation’s supply has failed to meet their demand. People of Rugin, Bichchhya, Kolti, Bandhu, Sappata, Wai …
A fierce public debate over GM food exposes concerns about America. Of the many thousands of usually small protests that break out in China every year, few relate to national policy. Many consider the risk of challenging the central government too great. But the entrance to the agriculture ministry is …
Over 35 per cent of the world's food supply would be lost without the use of pesticides. With already over one billion people, which is about 15 per cent of the human population, hungry and with an expected population of nine billion in 2050, the world needs a significant increase …
Achieving global food security is one of the major challenges of the coming decades. In order to tackle future food security challenges we must understand the past. This study presents a historical analysis of global food availability, one of the key elements of food security. By calculating national level dietary …
The World Livestock 2013: Changing disease landscapes looks at the evidence of changing disease dynamics involving livestock and explores three key areas: the Pressure, including drivers and risk factors that contribute to disease emergence, spread and persistence; the State, describing the disease dynamics that result from the Pressure and their …
This report analyzes global prospects for fisheries and aquaculture. The World Bank Group (WBG) Agriculture Action Plan 2013-15 summarizes critical challenges facing the global food and agriculture sector. An ever-increasing global population necessitates adequate food and nutrition for the growing population through increased production and reduced waste. Production increase must …
India, the world’s second largest producer of fruits and vegetables, is throwing away fresh produce worth Rs133 bn every year because of lack of adequate cold storage facilities and refrigerated transport, according to data compiled in this new report by Emerson Climate Technologies. India, the world’s second largest producer of …
Nov 27, Colombo: The government of Japan has granted approximately Rs.282 million (Japanese Yen 220 million) to Sri Lanka as food grant assistance through the World Food Program (WFP) to support the ongoing School Meals Program in the Northern Province of Sri Lanka. The Ministry of Economic Development will oversee …
Severe droughts that happen once every 20 years will affect New Zealand once every two to five years by the year 2100 and the country's Pacific neighbors will need help to deal with the impacts of climate change, a leading New Zealand climate scientist warned Wednesday. Auckland University climate scientist …
Nepal has moved up from having an ‘alarming’ hunger situation to ‘serious’, according to the scores of the Global Hunger Index 2013 report released this week. The report, published by International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), scores countries based on three equally weighted indicators-- the proportion of people who are …
The rate of reduction in hunger is slower than poverty in the country while the rate of decline has slowed down in both cases, according to Unnayan Onneshan, an independent multidisciplinary think-tank. The research organisation made the observation in its report, titled 'Poverty, Hunger, Nutrition, and Food Production in Bangladesh,' …
Earth may experience a radically different climate within 34 years, forever changing life as we know it, said a study that aims to bring the dangers of global warming into sharper focus. On current trends of greenhouse-gas emissions, 2047 will mark the year at which the climate at most places …
In this paper we study the simultaneous problems of food waste and hunger in the context of food (waste) rescue and redistribution as a means for mitigating hunger. To this end, we develop an empirical model that can be used in Monte Carlo simulations to study the dynamics of the …
India’s sheer size and poverty have meant that addressing the needs of its hundreds of millions of poor and vulnerable citizens has preoccupied Indian policymakers since independence. Unsurprisingly, the mix of strategies, the resulting policy instruments to undergird them and their relative effectiveness have been a matter of contentious debate.
This FAO study provides a global account of the environmental footprint of food wastage (i.e. both food loss and food waste) along the food supply chain, focusing on impacts on climate, water, land and biodiversity. A model has been developed to answer two key questions: what is the magnitude of …
To ensure food security law is rolled out smoothly in most states before the next general elections, the Centre has called a meeting of state food ministers and secretaries later this month. This is the first meeting called by the Union Food Ministry after the bill was cleared by Parliament …
Having enacted its own Food and Nutritional security Act, Chhattisgarh has now simplified procedures for its implementation so that the benefits percolate down to all beneficiaries who constitute about 90% of the state's nearly 2.50 crore population. "We have simplified all necessary procedures, including the number of categories entitled for …
Food shortage has taken its toll in Bajura after the Nepal Food Corporation (NFC) depots in the district ran out of provisions. The NFC depots at Martadi, the district headquarters, and Kolti ran low on rice two months ago, stemming the food scarcity throughout. Chief of the District Agriculture Development …
Since 2008, when rapid increases in the prices for major grains helped to trigger outbreaks of civil unrest in more than 40 countries, scholars and policymakers have paid increased attention to the potential influence of global food prices on social and political instability. Compelling and provocative headlines have suggested that …
