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The food industry has a ‘critical and urgent’ role to play to resolve the food waste crisis, according to Unilever’s president of foods and refreshment, Hanneke Faber.

People Globally Waste 1 Billion Tons of Food Every Year: UN Report Researchers say that one third of all the world’s food is thrown away. Why Global Citizens Should Care Food waste is not only a barrier to achieving the United Nations’ Global Goal 2, which is aimed at ending global hunger, it is also having a massive impact on efforts to mitigate climate change (Goal 13) and ensure responsible production and consumption (Goal 12). Join the movement to end extreme poverty and its systemic...

What’s on this week’s table for your patriotic Taiwanese? Freedom pineapples! As the WSJ reports: …These days, pineapple consumption is seen as an act of patriotism. Taiwan residents have been gobbling up the fruit since China—by far the island’s largest outside buyer—banned imports of their pineapples starting March 1, citing dangerous pests detected in recent shipments. Does that mean we should all rush out and try and get our hands on a Taiwanese pineapple, in solidarity with the...

Unsplash / 03 Mar 2021 In 2020, the world’s attention turned to the COVID-19 pandemic. But even as we poured all of energy and resources into tackling it, many pointed to wider issues as contributing factors. Nature and biodiversity loss. Climate change. Pollution and waste. The three planetary crises. All of which are destroying the natural world and threatening our future. Throughout all of this upheaval and debate, we stayed largely focused on the land. This was understandable, as in all l...

07 March 2021 Samira Sadeque :Twenty percent of all food bought by households, retailers, restaurants and other food services in 54 countries around the world was thrown away in 2019 - contributing to some 931 million tonnes of food waste and feeding climate change.This is according to the Food Waste Index Report 2021 which was launched by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in collaboration with UK charity WRAP, which works in the...

Pope Francis, who is on a historic trip to Iraq, once said, “Throwing away food is like stealing from the table of those who are poor and hungry.” This statement needs serious thinking, especially in the light of a UN report

Updated Mar 05, 2021 | 08:51 IST The latest Food Waste Index Report, released this Thursday (March 4), estimates that in 2019, 931 million metric tons (or 17 per cent) of the food available for consumption worldwide was wasted. Food waste in India [Representative image]&nbsp | &nbspPhoto Credit:&nbspiStock Images Key Highlights Food waste has social, environmental and economic impacts. Hunger affected 690 million in 2019, according to the United Nations. New Delhi: In a...

A new United Nations report estimates that 931 million tonnes (or 17 per cent) of food available to consumers - in stores, households and restaurants - went to waste in 2019.

The Food Waste Index Report 2021, from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and partner organisation WRAP, said that around 931 million tonnes of food waste was generated in 2019, sixty-one per cent of which came from households, 26 per cent from food service and 13 per cent from retail.

Wasting food just feeds climate change, new UN environment report warns  Unsplash/Sanjog Timsina | More than 900 million tonnes of food is thrown away every year. [Image posted here from UN News] Nairobi/Paris, 4 March 2021 (UNEP)* – An estimated 931 million tonnes of food, or 17% of total food available to consumers in 2019, went into the waste bins of households, retailers, restaurants and other food services, according to new UN research conducted to support global efforts to halve food w...