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Sustainable infrastructure can drive development and COVID-19 recovery: UNEP report Unsplash/Victor Garcia / 04 Mar 2021 Zimbabwe has long struggled with crippling power outages, some of which can last up to 18 hours a day. The cuts have been especially hard on the country’s hospitals and clinics, forcing nurses to deliver babies by candlelight and doctors to postpone emergency surgeries. But that is starting to change. Since 2017, Zimbabwe has installed solar panels atop more than 400 health...

According to the report, most of the global waste comes from households — which throw away about 11 percent of the food available for consumption. Some of the most notable waste occurs in South Africa, Kenya and China. The data for Kenya was more consistent than other countries between the two years the research was chosen from: 2010 and 2019. It found that higher-income households wasted significantly more food than middle and lower-income households. In 2010, for every 78 kgs per capita th...

How Much Food Is Thrown Out Each Year? It’s More Than You Think 03/04/21 AT 12:54 PM The amount of food wasted annually is enough to fill 23 million fully loaded 40-tonne trucks bumper-to-bumper, according to a new report from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), an organization dedicated to the environment. The Food Waste Index Report 2021 said that an estimated 931 million tonnes of food is simply thrown away each year, which accounts for 17% of the total food that is available...

The average household bins around 163 lbs (74 kg) of leftovers every year, the United Nations Food Waste Index Report 2021 has warned. This contributes to the 931 million tonnes of food waste the world generates annually — equivalent to 17 per cent of all the food available to consumers in 2019. The report was produced by the UN Environment Programme in tandem with the Waste & Resources Action Programme (WRAP), a British charity. It is part of the so-called UN Sustainable Development Goal ...

Waste not, want not Market food waste (Image by licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic) The Food Waste Index Report 2021 looks at food waste that occurs in retail outlets, restaurants and homes. A staggering 931 million tonnes of food – 17 percent of total food available to consumers in 2019 – went into the waste bins of households, retailers, restaurants and other food services,...

The waste damages efforts to help the billions of people who are either hungry or cannot afford a healthy diet, but also harms the environment. Food waste and loss causes about 10% of the emissions driving the climate emergency, and intensive farming is a key cause of the biodiversity crisis and global pollution. If food waste was a country, it would have the third highest emissions after only the US and China. But the researchers said cutting food waste was one of the easiest ways for people t...

Approximately 931 million metric tons (1.03 billion tons) of food produced around the world in 2019 ended up in the trash, according to a research conducted by the United Nations Environment Program.

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Wasted in 2019: 931 million tonnes of food sold to households, retailers, restaurants and other food services  Study finds food waste is a global, not just developed world, problem Food Waste Index report helps countries track progress on UN Sustainable Development Goal 12.3 to halve food waste by 2030