The global food system is putting the planet under pressure as 1.3 billion tons of food is lost or wasted every year in India: Difference between revisions
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Humans waste 3.5 million tons of food every day resulting in around 1.3 billion tons of food loss every year. If that number doesn’t impact you, here’s some perspective - the Empire State Building weighs 365 thousand tons. Forever.
This wasted food could feed two billion people, more than double the number of undernourished individuals worldwide.
Additionally, if wasted foods were considered a country, it would be the third largest producer of carbon dioxide, behind only the United States and China. Notably, consumers in developed countries waste almost as much food as the entire net food production of sub-Saharan Africa annually.
It doesn’t stop there. According to a The World Bank blog, 70% of all potable water is used for agriculture and if we do the math (33% of all food produced is wasted), we waste about 45 trillion liters of water every year, just with the food wastage
Reference:
https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/india-wasted-over-68-million-tons-of-food-in-2019-globally-931-million-tons-food-wasted-un-report-2384225
https://www.theworldcounts.com/challenges/consumption/foods-and-beverages/food-waste-facts
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