Food wastage: The United Nations made an urgent appeal to the world

NEW YORK (Reuters) – The United Nations on Tuesday called for urgent action from around the world to reduce the amount of food wasted, with food shortages, hunger and malnutrition affecting every country in the world.

According to the details, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has called for measures to curb food wastage, citing food loss and wastage as a major cause of hunger and malnutrition.

At present, countries around the world are producing enough food for about 8 billion people, but 800 million people are still hungry, and 2 billion people are suffering from malnutrition, experts say. Is facing, which can lead to serious health problems.

Experts at the World Food and Agriculture Organization (WFO) say that about a third of the world’s food, or 1.3 billion tonnes of food, eventually decays in the retail market instead of going into one’s stomach. , Or goes to consumer trash.

According to the United Nations, the damage is estimated at Ù¹ 1 trillion annually.

Nancy Aborto, deputy director of the FAO, says the loss of food results in the loss of all the resources, including water, land, energy, labor and capital, which are used to produce it, if food is lost. Without preventive measures, the United Nations will never be able to achieve its goal of sustainable development by 2030.

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He added that due to malnutrition, millions of children suffer from various diseases and die on the one hand and on the other hand, one out of every three adults is obese, she said. Another cause of unhealthy diet and lack of essential vitamins and minerals in the diet.

A report by the World Food Program (WFP) states that 14% of the world’s food production in 2019 was lost in the process of transporting it from farms to grocery stores. According to the report, about 17% of the available food was lost.

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