UN REPORT: ONE-THIRD OF WORLD’S FOOD WASTED ANNUALLY, AT GREAT ECONOMIC, ENVIRONMENTAL COST

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Date: 11 Sep 2013 12:00:01 -0400
Subject: UN REPORT: ONE-THIRD OF WORLD'S FOOD WASTED ANNUALLY, AT
GREAT ECONOMIC, ENVIRONMENTAL COST
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UN REPORT: ONE-THIRD OF WORLD'S FOOD WASTED ANNUALLY, AT GREAT
ECONOMIC, ENVIRONMENTAL COSTNew York, Sep 11 2013 12:00PMThe waste of
some 1.3 billion tons of food each year is causing economic losses of
$750 billion and significant damage to the environment, according to a
United Nations report launched today.

The report, <I><"http://www.fao.org/docrep/018/i3347e/i3347e.pdf">Food
Wastage Footprint: Impacts on Natural Resources</I>, is the first
study to analyze the impacts of global food wastage from an
environmental perspective, looking specifically at its consequences
for the climate, water and land use, and biodiversity.

One of the key findings of the report is that food that is produced
but not eaten each year guzzles up a volume of water equivalent to the
annual flow of Russia's Volga River and is responsible for adding 3.3
billion tonnes of greenhouse gases to the planet's atmosphere.
Similarly, 1.4 billion hectares of land – 28 per cent of the world's
agricultural area – is used annually to produce food that is lost or
wasted.

Beyond the environmental impacts, food wastage costs some $750 billion
annually to food producers.

"All of us – farmers and fishers; food processors and supermarkets;
local and national governments; individual consumers – must make
changes at every link of the human food chain to prevent food wastage
from happening in the first place, and re-use or recycle it when we
can't," <"http://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/196220/icode/">said
the Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
José Graziano da Silva.

"We simply cannot allow one-third of all the food we produce to go to
waste or be lost because of inappropriate practices, when 870 million
people go hungry every day."

The report points out specific features of food waste according to
regions. For example, cereal waste – particularly that of rice – is a
big problem in Asia, with major impacts on carbon emissions and water
and land use.

Fruit wastage contributes significantly to water waste in Asia, Latin
America, and Europe, while large volumes of vegetable wastage in
industrialized Asia, Europe, and South and South East Asia translates
into a large carbon footprint for that sector. Excluding Latin
America, high-income regions are responsible for about 67 per cent of
all meat waste.

As a companion to its report, FAO has also published a comprehensive
'tool-kit' with recommendations on how food loss and waste can be
reduced at every stage of the food chain. The tool-kit gives examples
of projects around the world that show how national and local
governments, farmers, businesses, and individual consumers can take
steps to tackle the problem.

"Today's excellent report by FAO underlines the multiple benefits that
can be realized – in many cases through simple and thoughtful measures
by for example households, retailers, restaurants, schools and
businesses – that can contribute to environmental sustainability,
economic improvements, food security and the realization of the UN
Secretary General's Zero Hunger Challenge,"
<"http://www.unep.org/newscentre/Default.aspx?DocumentID=2726&ArticleID=9611&l=en">said
the Executive Director of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), Achim
Steiner, while urging countries to join the agencies' joint campaign
to stem food waste 'Think Eat Save - Reduce Your Foodprint!'Sep 11
2013 12:00PM
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