Food Wastage

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Here is the best of Business Standard's opinion pieces for today

Sinful waste that needs to be stopped

The menace of hunger or undernourishment can be mitigated to a considerable extent just by curtailing the wastage of raw food and making a better use of the left-over cooked food

17% of food production wasted worldwide, new UN report estimates

Instead of finishing your leftovers, you let them go bad and buy takeout.

Unilever to halve food wastage, boost nutritional standards by 2025

Around 85 per cent of Unilever's foods portfolio would support a diet providing a maximum of 5g of salt intake a day by 2022

India's top agri-technology companies welcome government's Farm Bills

The bills are aimed at helping smallholder farmers get a better price for their produce and invest in technology to improve their farm productivity

Xi Jinping launches 'Clean Plates Campaign', triggers fears of food crisis

The sudden and massive push to curb the problem of discarded leftovers -- known as the "Clean Plates Campaign" -- has puzzled experts

Chinese military to introduce robot cooks, prevent food waste by troops

The above measures were aimed at improving the mechanisation and intelligence of meal making, reduce the labour intensity and energy consumption of cooking

Xi makes a political gamble by telling Chinese to clean their plates

This week, Xi rolled out a new push to curb the 'shocking and distressing' problem of discarded leftovers, as he seeks to fortify a fragile food supply strained by floods, epidemics, locusts and trade

Ugly Food Project aims to bring together enthusiasts of zero-waste cooking

'The thought behind the project is to create a food surplus from cuts of vegetables and meat that are usually thrown away'

Not keen on law to check food wastage in hotels: Ram Vilas Paswan

Says rather govt will encourage them to take voluntary steps in this regard

Battle against food wastage: Modi govt to curb portions in restaurants

Govt is drafting a questionnaire for restaurants to explain what dish sizes they should serve

Govt to promote new technologies to reduce food wastage

At present, post-harvest food losses are to the tune of Rs 1,00,000 crore, which is 1 per cent of the country's GDP