-Newsclick.in India produces 22% of the world’s total milk production; India is also the largest sheep and goat meat exporter. It is among the largest exporters of bovine meat too. There must be something that livestock producers in India have got right, argues Dr Kohler-Rollefson. On April 11, 2022, researcher Dr Ilse Kohler Rollefson, who has long worked among the camel herders of Rajasthan, delivered the keynote address at the National Livestock...

-Economic and Political Weekly The food systems approach proposes reducing food loss and Waste as a potential solution to achieve food and nutritional security. This is formalised in the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations. Despite the issue receiving such ubiquitous recognition, systematic efforts to measure and address FLW are absent in India. Our calculations show that one-sixth of agricultural production, accounting for one-tenth of the gross value added in...

-PTI/ The Wire Science New Delhi: Days after the fire at the Ghazipur landfill site sent pollution levels in nearby areas soaring, experts on Wednesday said authorities need to speed up the bioremediation of legacy Waste at such sites in the capital and build an extensive infrastructure to avoid dumping of fresh wet Waste into landfills to prevent such instances. The Delhi government’s Department of Environment has blamed the East Delhi Municipal...

-The Hindustan Times Delhi Police registered a first information report in connection with the landfill fire against unknown persons on Tuesday. New Delhi: Over 30 hours after a major fire broke out at east Delhi’s Ghazipur landfill site -- Delhi’s biggest Waste dump -- firefighters on Tuesday continued to put out the blaze even as they battled swampy stretches, a hostile terrain which their vehicles could not tread, challenge to reach the...

-The Hindu Decision was taken after representations from industries which process Waste that there was too little Waste for them After banning the import of plastic Waste in 2019, the Environment Ministry has permitted PET Bottles, as plastic Waste, to be imported for processing. The decision to rollback the ban was taken last year after representations by several industries in the business of processing Waste said there was too little Waste available...