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 grown goes uneaten, higher than the previously estimated 33%.
Yearly food waste reaches 2 5bn tonnes, contributes 10% to climate change
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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 combined with updated data on loss in supply chains and waste at retail and consumption, we have a clearer picture of the scale of food loss and waste from farm to fork that demonstrates for the first time how imperative it is that this stage is no longer overlooked in efforts to keep global warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius.