The startups tackling food waste in Mena
The startups tackling food waste in Mena A third of all the food produced for human consumption is wasted every year around the world. That is roughly 1.3 billion tonnes of food according to the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the UN, worth an estimated $2.3 trillion, enough to feed the 820 million hungry people four times over. The amount of food lost is so vast, that if food waste were a country, it would be the world’s third biggest source of greenhouse emissions, after the US and China. Among the biggest food wasters in the world is the GCC, where in Saudi Arabia, the average...
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