Around one third of all food produced for human consumption -- a staggering 1.3 billion tons -- is lost or wasted annually, according to the United Nations Environment Program. It's a statistic ...

In the developing world, a larger proportion of the food going uneaten is lost, whereas in the developed world, waste is the bigger problem. But food is lost and wasted everywhere and improvements are ...

Even as a third of humanity faces food insecurity, the equivalent of 1 billion meals is thrown away every single day worldwide ...

“Food waste is a complex problem", says Elsa Bernadotte ... Growing up in the Swedish countryside a few decades after the end of the Second World War, she counts herself lucky to belong to ...

Malaysians top the chart with 573 pounds, while Slovenians produce a world-low 134 pounds. When they were first implemented, ...

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The coffeehouse chain is the second restaurant company to sign on to the voluntary agreement designed to reduce the amount of ...

In 2016, Japan produced about 6.4 million tons of food waste. That's nearly twice the annual amount of aid that the UN World Food Program delivers to developing nations. Two of Japan's leading ...

food waste means needless greenhouse gas emissions and amounts to a misuse of the land and water required to raise crops and animals. Restaurants, grocers, farmers and food companies are ...