Minimise Global Food Waste

Managing food waste is a global challenge. Food waste is everywhere, be it in developed countries or developing countries. It is an irony that on the one hand there are people who have to go to bed hungry, while on the other there are people who have excess food to waste. As per a United Nations Hunger report, there is enough food produced for everybody to be fed, but as many as 811 million people remain hungry every day. Likewise, according to a United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) report, 1.3 billion tonnes of food worth USD 940 billion goes to waste annually. Researchers have calculated that the lost food calories represent 24 per cent of the total available food calories.