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The 2024 UNEP Food Waste Index Report, "Think Eat Save: Tracking Progress to Halve Global Food Waste," addresses the severe issue of food waste that accounts for US$1 trillion in losses, 8–10% of global greenhouse emissions, and the unnecessary use of 30% of the world's agricultural land, exacerbating hunger and affecting child growth.
The main aim of the day is to raise awareness to the importance of food loss and waste related problems and their possible solutions at all levels, and also to promote global efforts and collective action towards meeting the Sustainable Development Goal Target 12.3, which targets to halve per capita food waste at the retail and consumer level ...
Indicator 12.3.1.b: Food Waste Index this indicator is a proposal under development; FAO and the United Nations Environment Programme measure progress towards this target. [9]: 10 FAO found that "globally around 14 percent of the world’s food is lost from production before reaching the retail level". [9]: 5
The ongoing Russia-Ukraine war is exacerbating the food crisis. Ukraine and Russia collectively account for 30% of globally traded wheat, 20% of maize, and 70% of sunflower supplies, according to ...
World Rhino Day [128] September 22 Ecological Debt Day (Earth Overshoot Day) September 23 in 2008, but receding World Gorilla Day [129] [130] [131] September 24 World Environmental Health Day [132] September 26 since 2011 [133] World Cassowary Day [134] [135] September 26 International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste [136] September 29
The Global Food Security Index consists of a set of indices from 113 countries. It measures food security across most of the countries of the world. [ 1 ] It was first published in 2012, and is managed and updated annually by The Economist 's intelligence unit.
Many of the methods suggested by current campaigns to prevent food waste have taken inspiration from those of World War II. [3] [10] [11] Despite this, it remains debatable whether the waste campaigns and rationing, during and post-WWII, achieved any long-term change in people's attitudes towards waste; WRAP's 2007report on domestic household waste found that older people generate as much ...
In fact, the global meal delivery market was expected to soar to an impressive $436.50 billion by 2024. And by 2028, the meal delivery market is projected to attract around 2.5 billion users ...