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    World food prices reach highest level in more than a decade, says FAO

    05 Nov 2021

    The UN barometer of world food prices has surged to a new peak, reaching its highest level since July 2011, the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) announced.

    UAE launches roadmap to reduce food waste in the country by 50% by 2030

    19 Nov 2023

    Almheiri launches Ne’ma food loss and waste reduction roadmap which focuses on strong public and private sector collaboration, behavioural change and policy frameworks.

    Curb food waste and save the planet

    02 Oct 2022

    Pope Francis once said, “Throwing away food is like stealing from the table of those who are poor and hungry.” This statement needs serious thinking, especially in the light of a UN report that says more than 930 million tonnes of food sold in a year landed in waste bins. This is truly alarming. At a time when

    Food loss and waste impacts on climate and food security

    05 Sep 2023

    Food loss and waste (FLW) is both an environmental and economic problem, accounting for 8%-10% of greenhouse gas emissions and a global economic loss of $1 trillion, annually, according to a Mongabay-India report. Citing a new study which suggests that reducing FLW could lead to overconsumption, as food

    Malnutrition, a global vexation that sees no letup

    14 Jul 2021

    If there is one horrible thing – among the many terrible consequences – that the coronavirus has inflicted on humanity, it is that it has made more people undernourished. World hunger and levels of malnutrition soared dramatically last year,

    Food waste turns California’s climate change target

    09 Dec 2021

    Banana peels, chicken bones and leftover veggies won’t have a place in California trashcans under the nation’s largest mandatory residential food waste recycling programme that’s set to take effect in January. The effort is designed

    Global emergency of rising hunger

    19 Sep 2022

    David Beasley of UN World Food Programme told the UN Security Council on Thursday that the world is faced with the scourge of hunger after the pandemic, and it is also one of the after-effects of the pandemic, apart from wars in Yemen, Ukraine, Syria, droughts in places like Somalia, and economic crises arising

    Reducing food waste can help ease climate crisis

    10 Apr 2021

    Sometime over the last month, you probably threw away a banana. Maybe it got too ripe. Or maybe your child didn’t like the one he was eating with the spotty, brown skin. You probably didn’t think much about tossing it. But all told, Americans throw away 5 billion bananas every year — and a lot more food. Across the US food supply in 2019, 35% of it — some 80 million tons of food — went unsold or uneaten.

    A zero-waste food bus hopes to drive away hunger

    24 May 2021

    When Sidney Beukes got his bus driver’s licence, he never imagined himself behind the wheel of a 40-year-old school bus that has been turned into a mobile grocery store serving low-income residents of Johannesburg. The bus is not an easy drive: there is no power

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