Preventing food loss requires a shift toward a more efficient, circular food system – one that proactively minimises waste rather than merely reacting to it.
Food date labels appeared after WWII as people shopped at supermarkets and wanted 'the freshest food on the shelf'. But these dates rarely correspond to spoiling.
An electricity-free food dehydrator that enables people in rural areas to preserve their produce for up to a year without chemicals has been created by a food-tech company based in Mumbai.
Food security has taken a major hit during the Covid crisis, with disruptions in supply chains, closure of schools and the hospitality industry, and large-scale unemployment.
Some veteran China watchers believe the campaign against food waste, kicked off by Xi Jinping last week, is part of a long-term effort to increase self-sufficiency in food.
Imagine someone came to pick you up at Bengaluru airport. Spend more than two hours in traffic to see you? And pay for a cab both ways? There’s no bigger confession of love.
Regulator seeks feedback on allowing firms to repurchase shares via exchanges after tax changes, as markets reel from war-led selloff and foreign outflows.
China patiently invested capital, skill and technology in coal gasification. Unlike it, we won’t move from words to action. As crude prices decline, we lose interest.
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