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>
<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>
While the measured response of the government to overall inflation is to be admired, its performance with respect to food-price inflation cannot escape criticism, says Arvind Panagariya THE subject of inflation, which occupied the media and the politicians in 2008 until the global financial crisis put an abrupt end to it, has returned to the centre stage of the policy debate.
Bhopal, Aug 17: It is a tough task to provide good low-cost food to poor persons in these times of dearness. In view of this, Urban Administration and Development Minister Shri Babulal Gaur has instructed to provide full food to poor persons at the rate of Rs 5 per person through urban bodies.
A high-level technical consultative meeting that will begin in Nepal today (Wednesday) is likely to adopt a 10-year roadmap for adaptation to climate change in the eastern Himalayas sub-region for ensuring food, water and energy security. The 3-day consultative meeting on Sacred Himalayas for Water, Livelihood, and Bio-cultural Heritage will be held in Kathmandu.
 <br />Prime Minister Manmohan Singh expressed concern over a large section of the population still suffering from poverty and hunger and said more efforts were needed to achieve higher agricultural growth and ensure food security for the people.
The government is using the proposed National Food Security Act as an excuse not to distribute grain to the needy even as tonnes rot away in its warehouses<br />Nitin Sethi | TNN<br /><br />
It is important to design policies to pay farmers the real cost of growing food if we want to build local food sufficiency<br />
P. Sainath<br /><br />The NREGS is restricted. The PDS is targeted. Only exploitation is universal.<br />
Rain deficiency in eastern UP, Bihar and Jharkhand has dented the government
  <br />The Centre is finding it difficult to fix the criteria for identifying families living below the poverty line
<br /><p> ACKNOWLEDGING that the rotting foodgrain was