{"id":12864,"date":"2013-09-11T09:29:40","date_gmt":"2013-09-11T09:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rtcc.org\/?p=12864"},"modified":"2013-09-11T09:38:25","modified_gmt":"2013-09-11T09:38:25","slug":"un-global-food-waste-emissions-greater-than-us-transport-sector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/2013\/09\/11\/un-global-food-waste-emissions-greater-than-us-transport-sector\/","title":{"rendered":"UN: global food waste emissions greater than US transport sector"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color: #888888;\">Around 1.3bn tonnes of food is wasted on an annual basis, warn UNEP and the FAO<br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_12865\" style=\"width: 476px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12865\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12865\" title=\"Food waste_466\" src=\"http:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/files\/2013\/09\/Food-waste_466.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"466\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.climatechangenews.com\/files\/2013\/09\/Food-waste_466.jpg 466w, https:\/\/cdn.climatechangenews.com\/files\/2013\/09\/Food-waste_466-104x63.jpg 104w, https:\/\/cdn.climatechangenews.com\/files\/2013\/09\/Food-waste_466-271x163.jpg 271w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 466px) 100vw, 466px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-12865\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Pic: Flickr\/Sporkist)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>The global carbon footprint of food waste is more than twice the size of the greenhouse gas emissions from the US transport sector, says the UN.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fao.org\/docrep\/018\/i3347e\/i3347e.pdf\">report<\/a> by the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and UN Environment Programme (UNEP) estimates food waste accounts for 3.3 Gtonnes of CO2 equivalent (CO2e).<\/p>\n<p>It also highlights the staggering levels of water used in the production of cereals, meat and other foodstuffs on an annual basis, equal to the flow of Russia&#8217;s Volga River.<\/p>\n<p>Increased land degradation, the loss of biodiversity and growing hunger levels are also consequences of inefficient food production practices, which waste 1.3 billion tonnes of food per year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All of us &#8211; farmers and fishers; food processors and supermarkets; local and national governments and individual consumers \u00a0must make changes at every link of the human food chain to prevent food wastage from happening in the first place, and re-use or recycle it when we can&#8217;t,&#8221; FAO Director-General Jos\u00e9 Graziano da Silva said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We simply cannot allow one-third of all the food we produce to go to waste or be lost because of inappropriate practices, when 870 million people go hungry every day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to the FAO, 54% of the world&#8217;s food wastage occurs &#8220;upstream&#8221; during production, post-harvest handling and storage.<\/p>\n<p>Around 46% of it happens &#8220;downstream,&#8221; at the processing, distribution and consumption stages.<\/p>\n<p>The data suggests developing countries tend to suffer greater food losses during agricultural production, while richer nations waste more food at the retail and consumption end.<\/p>\n<p>According to the UN, the average carbon footprint of food wastage is about 500 kg CO2 eq. per capita.<\/p>\n<p>Wastage of cereals in Asia is a significant problem, specifically rice, which is linked to high methane emissions.<\/p>\n<p>The meat sector<strong> <\/strong>generates a substantial impact on the environment in terms of land occupation and carbon footprint, especially in high-income countries and Latin America.<\/p>\n<p>Fruit wastage contributes significantly to water waste in Asia, Latin America, and Europe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Around 1.3bn tonnes of food is wasted 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