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
If we cannot spruce up our PDS, the author Manisha Priyam argues, we can wind it up because some Latin American countries have come up with a very workable system; direct cash transfer rather than help in kind.
Dr Alok Shukla is among those civil servants who received awards for excellence in public administration from the prime minister on April 21. As secretary, food and civil supplies department, Chhattisgarh, he, along with two of his colleagues, has been credited with turning the much-maligned PDS into a success story.
Reversing wrongs could be a better idea than throwing rights at people whose strength is used up entirely in the daily struggle against exclusion. Running to courts to enforce their rights is not even on the periphery of their consciousnes
The Indian government is adopting a rights-based approach and converting the Directive Principles into Fundamental Rights, which are enforceable in the court of law. That is why we have seen a plethora of rights-based laws recently-right to education, right to employment, right to forest, right to information and now, right to food.
The Bt brinjal debate has featured technological worries relating to genetically modified crops, which appear relatively minor in comparison to the critical issue of who controls Indian agriculture and therefore who controls food security in India.
Minister for food and civil supplies (MFCS) Sharad Pawar has raised serious questions about the efficacy of the much awaited Food Security Act which is being hotly debated in government. With names of 1.8 crore families having been removed from the BPL lists prepared by state governments, the Planning Commission is awaiting the final figures of the newly-prepared lists in which the
AMIT AGNIHOTRI NEW DELHI Low farm productivity in big states like UP, Bihar, Orissa, MP and West Bengal is proving to be a limiting factor to India's food security in the long run
Gargi Parsai NEW DELHI: With expectations of a record wheat production this year (2009-10), the Union government is upbeat about providing food grains to the Below Poverty Line (BPL) families on a sustained basis under the proposed National Food Security Bill.
Nistula Hebbar, SANJEEB MUKHERJEE New Delhi: The average Indian family size is shrinking fast. With increasing migration from villages to urban areas and across states, families are becoming more nuclear with just above four members. While the government is crunching the latest numbers, it has already started impacting food grain allocation plans under the proposed Food Security Act.
INDIA BECAME independent soon after the Great Bengal Famine that claimed two million lives. An independent and free India reclaimed her food sovereignty and food security.