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 Supply
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Right to food upheld
The Supreme Court (sc) has asked the Union government to implement the famine code to tide over the crisis caused by the current drought. The code
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Supreme Court order on right to food dated 02/05/2003
Supreme Court order on right to food dated 02/05/2003.
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Below Poverty Line census: fudging figures?
A survey currently underway in states to calculate the number of below poverty line households is being opposed tooth and nail by civil society groups under the 'right to food' campaign. They are objecting to the exercise on two counts: firstly, the crite
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Climate change and human health: Risks and responses
This report seeks to describe the context and process of global climate change, its actual or likely impacts on health, and how human societies and their governments should respond with particular focus on the health sector.
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Bird vs bread & butter
A controversy is raging over ambelopoulia
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In Brief
Philippines joins CNG bandwagon: Yet another country attempting to switch its public transport to compressed natural gas (CNG) mode is Philippines. President Gloria Maca pagal-Arroyo has announced
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Food as carrot
In a world where corporate gains feed on hunger and poverty, could food be a human right?
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Winds of change?
Disaster management chaos leaves Orissa as vulnerable as before
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guatemala
Thousands of children under five years of age are suffering from malnourishment after a drought devastated subsistence crops in Guatemala. This was recently revealed by Deborah Hines, un World
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Climate change and agricultural vulnerability
The methodology and results reported in this study form a first comprehensive and integrated global ecological