NAIROBI, March 27 (Xinhua) -- The crisis of food waste and loss has reached alarming levels globally, undermining efforts to eradicate hunger, poverty and environmental pollution, said the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) in a new report launched Wednesday. The UNEP Food Waste Index Repo...
We show that the impacts of reducing waste vary by commodity, depending on supply and demand elasticities, degree of openness to international trade and the initial rates of food loss and waste at each stage of the value chain. The cascading effects up and down the supply chain mean that in...
A third of global food production is lost in the production chain or wasted in the chain of consumption, with severe consequences in the social, environmental and economic spheres. Reducing the volumes of this shocking waste ...
Another staggering statistic—according to USDA’s Economic Research Service, the retail and consumer levels see a 31% food loss, resulting in approximately 133 billion pounds with costs topping $161 billion. The environmental impact is equally concerning, with food waste being a major contributor ...
Reducing food loss and waste is a no-brainer in a world where a third of all food produced is not eaten at the same time as one in nine people are undernourished. Such inefficiency in the global food system has significant economic, social, and environmental impacts. Economic losses are aro...
根据第二段的Thereport,whosefindingsrevealedthatthetotalfoodlossontheglobaleconomyisestimatedatroughly＄1trillion,emphasizedthatreducingfoodwasteisanopportunitytoreducecostsandtacklesomeofthebiggestenvironmentalandsocialissuesofourtime:climatechangeandfoodinsecurity(该报告的调查结果显示,全球经济的粮食损失总额估计约为1...
The in-store food waste stage: This stage does not account for food waste as the surplus may have already been repurposed for donation to social organizations or utilized as animal feed. However, it still constitutes an economic loss for retailers; operational issues leading to waste include an...
Food loss and waste (FLW) hampers global food security, human health and environmental sustainability. However, monitoring and benchmarking FLW reduction is often constrained by the lack of reliable and consistent data, especially for emerging economies. Here we use 6 yr large-scale field surveys...
Food wastage also means economic waste. Food produced that not consumed has an annual bulk-trade value of USD 936 billion. But the cost goes beyond the financial value of lost food. Food production can cause indirect loss of the economic value, however, About one-third of all food produced ...
Food loss and food waste are recognized as two of the most challenging dilemmas facing the world today with serious repercussions on food security, the environment, and global as well as regional and national economies. This is not different in the Arab countries where the food loss and food ...