Telling Numbers: The food we waste, and what it costs the global economy | Explained News, The Indian Express

Telling Numbers: The food we waste, and what it costs the global economy | Explained News, The Indian Express

By Express News Service |New Delhi |Updated: September 3, 2019 8:26:51 am

Telling Numbers: The food we waste, and what it costs the global economy

The uneaten food is responsible for emitting about 8 per cent of planet-warming greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, said the report, “Reducing Food Loss and Waste”.

Mangos being disposed at Vadsar dumping site in Vadodara. (File/Express Photo: Bhupendra Rana)

A new report by the World Resources Institute (WRI) with the support of the Rockefeller Foundation has quantified global food wastage — nearly one-third of the food that is produced each year goes uneaten, costing the global economy over $940 billion.