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 Policy
-
Importing food insecurity
Cheaper imports negatively impacts food security; it seems the government is not bothered about this fact.
-
BJP sees food-scarcity era
The Bharatiya Janata Party has charged the United Progressive Alliance government with "mismanagement of the food economy' and warned that prices of cereals, pulses, edible oil, and other essentia
-
Agri commodity prices may rise further: FAO
Global agricultural commodity prices, which are rising for the last two years, are expected to remain high in the near future, according to the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO).
-
FCI may meet wheat procurement target for PDS
Sitting on a stock of 5.5 million tonnes of wheat before the marketing season, the Food Corporation of India (FCI) today expressed confidence that it would meet the government's procurement target o
-
Govt fights inflation with duty reliefs
Cabinet Committee on Prices holds emergency meet late in the evening at PM's residence BS Reporters / New Delhi April 01, 2008 Scraps import duties on edible oil; pulses exports ban stays.
-
Implications of higher global food prices for poverty in low-income countries
In many poor countries, the recent increases in prices of staple foods raise the real incomes of those selling food, many of whom are relatively poor, while hurting net food consumers, many of whom are also relatively poor. The impacts on poverty will certainly be very diverse, but the average impact on poverty depends upon the balance between these two effects, and can only be determined by looking at real-world data. Results using household data for ten observations on nine low-income countries
-
World food prices soar as Asia consumes more
Food prices are soaring, a wealthier Asia is demanding better food and farmers cannot keep up. In short, the world faces a food crisis and in some places it is already boiling over. Around the globe, people are protesting and governments are responding with often counterproductive controls on prices and exports - a new politics of scarcity in which ensuring food supplies is becoming a major challenge for the 21st century.
-
Food prices and inflation in developing Asia: is poverty reduction coming to an end?
The recent spike in global food prices and the short-sighted policy responses that accentuate volatility in prices threaten to push large numbers of people back below the poverty line
-
Food prices and inflation in developing Asia: is poverty reduction coming to an end?
The recent spike in global food prices and the short-sighted policy responses that accentuate volatility in prices threaten to push large numbers of people back below the poverty line
-
Food price increases weighing heavily on the poor
PARIS: Spare a thought for the world's poor and hungry when you tune into the next episode of U.S. recession watch this week. Sky-high food prices are prompting one country after another to curtail exports in favor of domestic supply, a trend India joined Friday hard on the heels of Vietnam with a sharp increase in export prices for rice, a national staple in both countries. Cameroon, smarting from food price riots that rights groups say left as many as 100 people dead last month, announced cutbacks in official travel abroad to help finance wage rises for state employees.