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No accurate estimates of the extent of FLW are available but studies indicate that FLW is roughly 30 percent of all food globally FAO 2015. The total cost of food waste is estimated at 1 trillion.
We lose 750 billion yearly on food waste excluding fish and seafood.
Fao food waste data. The 2019 State of Food and Agriculture on Food Loss and Waste incorporates modelled loss estimates that stem from the first dataset batch from the database. The food loss estimation model was developed by FAO Statistics Division in 2016-2018 and serves as a. The Food Loss and Waste database is the largest online collection of data on both food loss and food waste and causes reported throughout the literature.
The database contains data and information from openly accessible reports and studies measuring food loss and waste across food products stages of the value chain and geographical areas. FAOs work on measurement and support to countries to take action to reduce food loss and waste is critical to tracking progress made by countries. Food loss is the decrease in the quantity or quality of food resulting from decisions and actions by food suppliers in the chain excluding retailers food service providers and consumers SOFA 2019.
FAOs new report is the first study to focus on the environmental impacts of food wastage. The global volume of food wastage is estimated at 16 billion tonnes of primary product equivalents Total food wastage for the edible part of this amounts to 13 billion tonnes. FAO resources on food loss and waste Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO resources on food loss and waste 29092020 In a world where the number of people affected by hunger has been slowly rising since 2014 and tonnes of edible food are lost andor wasted every day curbing food loss and waste is essential.
Overall on a per-capita basis much more food is wasted in the industrialized world than in developing countries. We estimate that the per capita food waste by consumers in Europe and North-America is 95-115 kgyear while this figure in sub-Saharan Africa and SouthSoutheast Asia is only 6-11 kgyear. FOOD LOSS MEASUREMENT 1.
Current FAO FBS record quantities of losses by commodity and country The data covers the food value chain from post-harvest to retail level Reported loss data coverage have been historically low 4 of the required matrix data. Around 931 million tonnes of food goes to waste each year. 61 comes from households 26 from food service and 13 from retail.
Reducing waste could have social economic and environmental benefits. The UN Sustainable Development Goals aim to halve food waste by 2030. No accurate estimates of the extent of FLW are available but studies indicate that FLW is roughly 30 percent of all food globally FAO 2015.
This amounts to 13 billion tonnes per year. FLW represents wastage of resources including the land water labor and energy used to produce food. Support the fight against climate change food waste alone generates about 8 of Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions FAO 2015 save nutritious food for redistribution to those in need helping to eradicate hunger and malnutrition some 33 million people in the EU cannot afford a quality meal every second day Eurostat 2018.
According to the FAO methodology the quantity of food and agricultural exports included in the FAOSTAT database is expressed in terms of weight tonnes for all commodities except for live animals which are expressed in units heads. Poultry rabbits pigeons and. Fourteen percent of the food produced globally is lost during the post-harvest production stage before reaching the retail stage of the food system according to the newly-released FAO 2019 State of Food and Agriculture SOFA reportWhile significant this figure is less than an earlier FAO loss estimate of one-third of all food.
An FAO report –Food wastage footprint Impacts on natural resources– was published in 2013. It uses the results of the previous report to generate data on the impact of food wastage on natural resources. Food loss - Food waste.
Impact of Food Waste. The social and economic impact of food waste is easy to see for many. Food waste flies in the face of global hunger while the cost in dollars is more or less exact.
We lose 750 billion yearly on food waste excluding fish and seafood. The total cost of food waste is estimated at 1 trillion. Food losses and waste amounts to roughly US 680 billion in industrialized countries and US 310 billion in developing countries.
Industrialized and developing countries dissipate roughly the same quantities of food respectively 670 and 630 million tonnes. Fruits and vegetables plus roots and tubers have the highest wastage rates of any food. The Food and Agriculture Organization FAO of the United Nations defines food waste as any instance in which safe and nutritious food is discarded or used for a non-food purpose anywhere in the supply chain.