From Farm to Fork Reducing Food Waste

If food waste was a country, it would be the third biggest carbon emitter after the US and China [1]. While 800 million people around the world do not have enough food, around one third of all food produced for human consumption - approximately 1.3 billion tonnes - is wasted or lost [2]. An estimated 88 million tonnes of food are wasted each year in the EU [3] - enough to feed the 55 million people living in food poverty in Europe more than nine times over. And, even if we were to redistribute surplus foo d to those in need we would still be ov

Source: The European Environmental Bureau