India Environment Portal | News, reports, documents, blogs, data, analysis on environment & development | India, South Asia
Published on India Environment Portal | News, reports, documents, blogs, data, analysis on environment & development | India, South Asia (http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in)

Home > News > Annual food wastage enough to feed 500 mn people: FAO > Annual food wastage enough to feed 500 mn people: FAO

Annual food wastage enough to feed 500 mn people: FAO [1]

Food losses and waste amount to roughly $680 billion in industrialised countries and $310 billion in developing countries

The total food wasted every year globally is enough to feed 500 million people without any extra burden on natural resources, a top official of United Nation's body Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has said. "Around one third of all the food produced in the world is lost or wasted every year," FAO Director General Jose Graziano da Silva said, adding the elimination of this wastage is an important step in achieving zero hunger.

Publication Date: 
25/10/2012
Business Standard (New Delhi) [2]
Tags:
Developing Countries [3], FAO [4], UNEP [5], People [6], Ministry Of Food & Civil Supplies [7], Food Policy [8]
Centre for Science and Environment
National Knowledge Commission Government of India

Technology Partners: MimirTech


India Environment Portal by Centre for Science and Environment is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 India License.


Source URL: http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/news/annual-food-wastage-enough-feed-500-mn-people-fao

Links:
[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/news/annual-food-wastage-enough-feed-500-mn-people-fao
[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/newspaper/business-standard-new-delhi
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/developing-countries
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/fao
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/unep
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/people
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/ministry-food-civil-supplies
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/food-policy