“Think, Eat, Save”, hedder kampagnen, som lanceres af to FN-organisatoner – og der er nok at tage fat i for det anslås, at menneskeheden hvert år går glip af 1,3 milliarder tons mad, som enten smides ud eller går tabt på anden vis.
ROME, 22 January 2012: Simple actions by consumers and food retailers (detailhandlende) can dramatically cut the 1,3 billion tonnes of food lost or wasted each year and help shape a sustainable future.
This is the message from to a new global campaign to cut food waste launched Tuesday by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), and partners.
The “Think.Eat.Save. Reduce Your Foodprint campaign” is in support of the SAVE FOOD Initiative to reduce food loss and waste along the entire chain of food production and consumption – run by the FAO and trade fair organizer Messe Düsseldorf – and the UN Secretary General’s Zero Hunger Initiatives.
The new campaign specifically targets food wasted by consumers, retailers and the hospitality industry.
The campaign harnesses (trækker på) the expertise of organizations such as WRAP (Waste and Resources Action Programme), Feeding the 5.000 and other partners, including national governments, who have experience targeting and changing wasteful practices.
Think.Eat.Save. aims to accelerate action and provide a global vision and information-sharing portal for the many and diverse initiatives currently underway around the world – se http://www.thinkeatsave.org
Worldwide, about one-third of all food produced, worth around 1 trillion US dollar, gets lost or wasted in food production and consumption systems, according to data released by FAO.
Food loss occurs mostly at the production stages – harvesting, processing and distribution – while food waste typically takes place at the retailer and consumer end of the food-supply chain.
“Makes no sense”
“In a world of seven billion people, set to grow to nine billion by 2050, wasting food makes no sense – economically, environmentally and ethically,” said UNEP Executive Director Achim Steiner.
“Aside from the cost implications, all the land, water, fertilizers and labour needed to grow that food is wasted – not to mention the generation of greenhouse gas emissions produced by food decomposing (forrådner) on landfill and the transport of food that is ultimately thrown away,” he noted, adding:
“To bring about the vision of a truly sustainable world, we need a transformation in the way we produce and consume our natural resources.”
More than all food in Sub-SaharanAfrica
“Together, we can reverse (vende) this unacceptable trend and improve lives. In industrialized regions, almost half of the total food squandered (forødet), around 300 million tonnes annually, occurs because producers, retailers and consumers discard (kasserer) food that is still fit for consumption,” said José Graziano da Silva, FAO Director-General.
“This is more than the total net food production of Sub-Saharan Africa, and would be sufficient to feed the estimated 870 million people hungry in the world”, stated he.
“If we can help food producers to reduce losses through better harvesting, processing, storage, transport and marketing methods, and combine this with profound and lasting changes in the way people consume food, then we can have a healthier and hunger-free world,” Graziano da Silva added.
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