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Fao Food Waste Data. FLW represents wastage of resources including the land water labor and energy used to produce food. 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. This amounts to 13 billion tonnes per year. The social and economic impact of food waste is easy to see for many.
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. 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. 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. 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. Poultry rabbits pigeons and. Food loss - Food waste.
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.
FOOD LOSS MEASUREMENT 1. Impact of Food Waste. 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. Food loss - Food waste. This amounts to 13 billion tonnes per year. 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.