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 ...

Animal and human effluent is loaded with agricultural gold: tons upon tons of phosphorus, potassium and nitrogen, critical nutrients for the world’s crops. In fact the abundant waste is itself ...

“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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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 ...

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 ...