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• Coarse grains production and distribution: Standing Committee on Food, Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution (2022-2023)

  <p>The Standing Committee on Food, Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution in its report titled Coarse grains production and distribution, said Considering the fact that more and more states are opting for millets, with a view to encourage remaining states to opt for nutritious and healthy millets in combination with rice and wheat, the committee suggest the Govt of India to explore the possibility of distributing millets in addition to rice and wheat under TPDS and other welfare schemes.</p>

  • 07/08/2023

  • Lok Sabha Secretariat
  • • Minimum Support Price (MSP)
    • Food Security
    • Food Supply
    • Public Distribution System (PDS)
    • Millets
    • Sorghum
    • Maize
    • India
    • Parliament

• Addressing overweight and obesity in LMICs in the realm of rural development and food systems

  Overweight and obesity rates across low- and middle-income countries have approached levels found in high-income countries. While overweight and obesity are more prevalent in urban areas, they are also

  • 01/06/2023

  • International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
  • • Obesity
    • Food Supply
    • Nutrition
    • India
    • Global

• Promoting diversity in agricultural production towards healthy and sustainable consumption

  The challenges facing contemporary production and consumption patterns are reflected most clearly in the agri-food system, which accounts for one-third of global greenhouse gas emissions. Technological

  • 18/05/2023

  • Think20 (T20)
  • • Agriculture
    • Consumption Patterns
    • Food Supply
    • India
    • Global

• Global report on food crises 2023

  <p>Almost 258 million people in 58 countries faced acute food shortages last year due to conflicts, climate change, effects of the coronavirus pandemic and the war in Ukraine, according to this United Nations report, a sharp rise from 193 million the previous year.</p>

  • 03/05/2023

  • Food Security Information Network (FSIN)
  • • Food Security
    • Food Prices
    • Food Supply
    • Malnutrition
    • India
    • Global
    • Africa

• Order of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of setting up community kitchens in India, 27/03/2023

  <p>Order of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of Anun Dhawan &amp; Others Vs Union of India &amp; Others dated 27/03/2023.</p> <p>The matter related to setting up of community kitchens to fight

  • 27/03/2023

  • • Food Security
    • Supreme Court
    • Government Of India (GOI)
    • Food Supply
    • Food Policy

• WHO global report on sodium intake reduction

  <p>The world is off track to meet its target of reducing salt intake by almost a third by 2025, costing thousands of lives, according to this new report by the World Health Organisation (WHO).</p>

  • 09/03/2023

  • WHO
  • • Salt
    • Nutrition
    • Non Communicable Diseases
    • Health Effects
    • Food Supply
    • India
    • Global
    • Africa

• World food and agriculture: statistical yearbook 2022

  This publication offers a synthesis of the major factors at play in the global food and agricultural landscape. Statistics are presented in four thematic chapters, covering the economic importance of agricultural

  • 12/12/2022

  • FAO
  • • Agriculture
    • Food Security
    • Food Supply
    • Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
    • Statistics
    • India
    • Global

• Sustainable food cold chains: opportunities, challenges and the way forward

  <p>As food insecurity and global warming rise, governments, international development partners and industry should invest in sustainable food cold chains to decrease hunger, provide livelihoods to communities, and adapt to climate change, according to this new report by the FAO and the UNEP</p>

  • 12/11/2022

  • FAO
  • • Food Storage
    • Food Supply
    • Food Security
    • Climate Adaptation
    • India
    • Global

• Special report: FAO/WFP crop and food security assessment mission (CFSAM) to the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka

  An estimated 6.3 million people in Sri Lanka are facing moderate to severe acute food insecurity and their situation is expected to worsen if adequate life-saving assistance and livelihood support is not

  • 12/09/2022

  • FAO
  • • Food Security
    • Food Supply
    • Agriculture
    • Crops
    • Sri Lanka

• Africa agriculture status report 2022: accelerating African food systems transformation

  This year’s Africa Agriculture Status Report (AASR) focuses on accelerating African food systems. This theme plays a critical role in not only shaping human diets and health outcomes but in also ensuring

  • 01/09/2022

  • Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA)
  • • Agriculture
    • Africa
    • Food Security
    • Food Supply