More than 1.050 million tons food HE they wasted in 2022, 60% of the world will be households, according to the report United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), which noted that this came in a year in which a third of humanity faced food insecurity.

“Food waste is a global tragedy. Millions of people will pass hunger today due to food waste around the world,” UNEP Executive Director Inger Andersen said at the report’s launch this Wednesday.

This 2024 Food Waste Index report, produced in collaboration with partner organization WRAP, is called Think, Eat, Save. Tracking progress to halve global food waste.”

The study provides a global assessment of food waste at the retailer and consumer level and suggests best practices to halve waste by 2030, according to the study. Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) installed United Nations.

According to UNEP, 1.05 billion tons of food waste (including inedible parts) was produced in 2022, amounting to 132 kilograms per capita and almost a fifth of all food available to consumers.

Of the total food waste, 60% (631 million tons) comes from Houses worldwide, 28% services food products and 12% retail.

Each person wastes 79 kilograms of food per year, and households waste the equivalent of one billion meals every day, or in other words, 1.3 meals per day for people suffering from hunger around the world.

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In turn, food waste, the report notes, produces between 8% and 10% of global emissions. greenhouse gases (GHGs, in English), which is almost five times the total emissions of the aviation sector.

Food waste continues to harm the global economy and fuel changing of the climate, a loss nature And pollution, although UNEP reminded that this is not only a problem for rich countries.

Thus, on average, countries with different income levels waste the same amount of food per person.

On the other hand, only four G20 countries (Group of Twenty, bloc of rich and developing economies), Australia, Japan, UK And USA., Except European Union (EU), They have adequate estimates of food waste to track progress until 2030.

WRAP chief executive Harriet Lamb therefore called for “more coordinated action across continents and supply chains”.

“This is critical to feeding people and not landfills,” Lamb added.

(EFE)