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Food Waste Is Worse Than Initially Thought By Ashley Palya on July 22 2021 7:44 AM If food waste was a country, it would be the third largest emitter on Earth AFP / TOLGA AKMEN The amount of food that goes to waste each year has reached an estimated 2.5 billion tons, a figure that was nearly double the estimates by the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization.  The World Wildlife Fund and U.K. grocery retailer Tesco revealed Wednesday in a report entitled, "Driven to Waste: Global Food Loss on Farms," that about 40% of all food that is...

Today, WWF and Tesco publish Driven to Waste, a new report that quantifies the total amount of food lost on farms globally, revealing an estimated 2.5 billion tonnes of food 2 goes uneaten around the world each year. That is an increase of approximately 1.2 billion tonnes on the established estimates of 1.3 billion tonnes wasted each year. These new estimates indicate that of all the food grown, approximately 40 per cent goes uneaten, which is higher than the previously estimated figure of 33% 3. Driven to Waste is the first quantification of total on-farm food losses since 2011. When combi...

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Getty Images The Pacific Coast of North America represents the world’s fifth largest economy, a region of 55 million people with a combined GDP of $3 trillion.  But like most of the world, it has a big food waste problem. The Pacific Coast Collaborative (PCC) has joined key players from British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, California, and the cities of Vancouver, Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Oakland, and Los Angeles to build a low-carbon economy, and food waste is one of its main focuses.   Pete Pearson, senior director of Food Loss and Waste, World Wildlife Fund...

Bluesology: Ghalia Volt's One Woman Band, Mick Kolassa, Sugar Ray and more Mike Greenblatt's monthly Bluesology column inspects the recent notes of Ghalia Volt's One Woman Band, Mick Kolassa, Sugar Ray and more. Author: Any new Mick Kolassa album is cause for celebration. This longtime champion of the blues helped The Blues Foundation become a guiding force in this music and, indeed, 100% of the proceeds from the sale of If You Can’t Be Good, Be Good At It (on his own Endless Blues Records) helps support that effort. And what an album! Give Jeff Jensen some credit here. The leader of his ...