Tag: Global Food Losses and Food Waste

• Tuesday, August 5th 2014 - 06:42 UTC

  Food loss and waste in Latam could feed the region's 47 million hungry

  

  In Latin America and the Caribbean more food is lost and wasted than is needed to meet the nutritional needs of the 47 million people who still suffer from hunger in the region, according to FAO. The report Losses and waste of food in Latin America and the Caribbean of the FAO Regional Office says that 6% of global food losses occur in the region.

• Thursday, May 12th 2011 - 06:19 UTC

  One third of world food production for humans gets lost or wasted, says FAO

  

  Roughly one third of the food produced in the world for human consumption every year — approximately 1.3 billion tons — gets lost or wasted, according to an FAO-commissioned study.