25-year-old Ankit Kawatra attended a celebrity wedding and was shocked to see heaps of leftover food being trashed, enough to feed 5,000 people just that night. That spurred him to quit his...Image by The Wedding Photography Co (Image for illustrative purposes only)
Phenomenal amounts of surplus food goes to waste every day across canteens and kitchens at corporate organisations. This food is simply thrown away. The Swabhimaan trust collects leftover f...Image by Abhishek Chinnappa / Reuters (Image for illustrative purposes only)
Social start-ups that address urban hunger are using technology to target the needy. Crowd-sourcing data to pinpoint hunger spots and taking food donation requests through their app, volunt...Image by Kamal Kishore / Reuters (Image for illustrative purposes only)
About 40 percent of India&rsquos fresh fruits and vegetables perish each year before they reaches consumers, according to an estimate by the UN&rsquos Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO...Image by Vivek Prakash / Reuters (Image for illustrative purposes only)
India is growing more food but also wasting up to 67 million tonnes of it every year, says a study by Ciphet, the farm ministry&rsquos harvest-research body. Supply chain bottlenecks, poor ...Image by Ajay Verma / Reuters (Image for illustrative purposes only)
Since growing food takes up natural resources, food waste translates to a waste of natural resources as well. Rice cultivation, for example, needs large quantities of water. According to FA...Image by Jitendra Prakash / Reuters (Image for illustrative purposes only)
Globally, one-third of the food produced for human consumption is wasted, costing the world economy about $750 billion (more than Rs 47 lakh crore), according to data from the FAO. 28 perce...Image by NASA / Reuters (Image for illustrative purposes only)
High taxation on packaged food deters self-help groups in small towns and rural areas from setting up packaged food units. Reducing it will encourage ancillary and cottage industries like p...Image by Narinder Nanu / AFP/Getty Images (Image for illustrative purposes only)
