A third of the food produced in the world is thrown away
A sustainable diet provides nutritionally healthy food consumption, with a low footprint in terms of land use and water resources used, with low carbon and nitrogen emissions, attentive to the conservation of biodiversity and ecosystems, rich in local foods and traditional, fair and accessible for all. Yet today 795 million people in the world do not have enough to eat. The vast majority of hungry people live in developing countries, where 12.9% of the population suffers from malnutrition. Asia is the continent that has the highest percentage of hungry people in the world - two thirds of the total population.
Faced with this disturbing picture, according to FAO, as many as 1300 million tons of food, for various reasons, end up in the trash; we are talking about an incredible amount: that is one third of the total food produced. A real crime to which the policies of individual Governments, especially the richer ones, are weak, ineffective and often non-existent.
Faced with this disturbing picture, according to FAO, as many as 1300 million tons of food, for various reasons, end up in the trash; we are talking about an incredible amount: that is one third of the total food produced. A real crime to which the policies of individual Governments, especially the richer ones, are weak, ineffective and often non-existent.
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