Food waste index report 2024
The Food Waste Index Report 2024 builds upon its predecessor in three key ways: Firstly, it incorporates vastly expanded data points from around the world, providing a significantly more robust global
The Food Waste Index Report 2024 builds upon its predecessor in three key ways: Firstly, it incorporates vastly expanded data points from around the world, providing a significantly more robust global
Ravish Tiwari New Delhi: The formal announcement of the constitution of the National Advisory Council (NAC) appears to have unleashed some action in the bureaucracy to speed up work on the proposed National Food Security law.
If you think that climate change is merely a drastic change in weather, think again. Scientists at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (Icrisat) found that higher temperatures are making chickpea susceptible to new diseases.
The challenges that this world is facing in terms of food security and climate change have thrown up enough opportunities for the biotechnology sector across the world, especially in countries such as India, said Ms Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, Chairperson of Karnataka's Vision Group on Biotechnology and CMD of Biocon, at the inaugural session of the Bangalore Bio India in Bangalore on Wednesday.
The system that oversees global agriculture and food security needs an overhaul, says Joachim von Braun.
Restoring lost and damaged ecosystems-from forests and freshwaters to mangroves and wetlands-can trigger multi-million dollar returns, generate jobs and combat poverty according to this new UNEP. It draws on thousands of ecosystem restoration projects world-wide and showcases over 30 initiatives that are transforming the lives of communities and countries across the globe.
<p>The UN Department for Social and Economic Affairs (UNDESA) has released the World Economic and Social Survey (WEES) 2010, which indicates that many of the global crises in recent years – such as the food, fuel and financial crises – are to a large extent due to major systemic failures in the global economy and weaknesses in the mechanisms for global governance.
The potential of biotechnology to contribute to the reduction of hunger, malnutrition and poverty in Africa can only be realised with the presence of biosafety legislation. Recently, Kenya enacted the Biosafety Act 2008 after more than six years of stakeholder engagement with farmers, academicians, researchers, members of the community, funders, regulators, and private sector players.
MIT AGNIHOTR The food ministry headed by Sharad Pawar is upset after an empowered group of ministers (EGoM) on food headed by finance minister Pranab Mukherjee shot down its proposal of food tribunals to look into delivery related problems while implementing the proposed National Food Security Act.
<p>Rural India is much poorer than officially thought. The Planning Commission has accepted the report of a committee, led by economist Suresh Tendulkar, which estimates that more than 41 per cent of rural India is poor. States will now have to issue more below poverty line (bpl) cards. But is the report an accurate index of poverty?</p>