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quickfoodwastagefacts#hungerpalava#wetinUthink
tonnes of food wasted EVERY YEAR
1.3 billion
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the entire net fooD pro
duction of Sub
Saharan Africa
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In the United States 30% of all food, worth US$48.3 billion (€32.5 billion), is thrown away each year.
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It is estimated that about half of the water used to produce this food also goes to waste, since agriculture is the largest human use of water.
(Jones, 2004 cited in Lundqvist et al., 2008)
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Almost 1/3 of food produced for human consumption - approximately 1.3 billion tonnes per year - which could feed the total global population of 7 billion is either lost or wasted.
(www.futuredirections.org)
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24% to 35% of school
lunches end up in
the bin
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Wasted foodwasted water.
is also Water
losses accumulate as food is wasted before and after it reaches the consumer.
The irrigation water used globally to grow food that is wasted would be enough for the domestic needs (at 200 litres per person per day) of 9 billion people - the number expected on the planet by 2050.
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If we on land currently used to grow unnecessary surplus and wasted food, this would offset a theoretical maximum of 100% of greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel combustion.
planted trees
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10% of rich countries' greenhouse gas emissions come from growing food
that is never eaten.
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Calculations estimate that food waste accounts for more than a quarter of total freshwater consumption globally.
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(NIFST, 2011)
In Nigeria, excess of tonnes of grain was reported to be lost to spoilage and wastage occasioned by the lack of post harvest management
10 million
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A quarter of the food
produced in Africa
spoils before it reaches
the consumer.
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Rotten food stinks!!! much more dangerous
is the emission of odourless gas
( ) that it produces, which has
greater global warming potential
than carbon dioxide.
methane
(The Produce News-Oct 24, 2013)
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Nearly people go hungry every day. More than under the age of 5 die daily from hunger.(According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO),
one billion20,000 children
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Nigeria has the third highest number of malnourished children in the world.
million Nigerians
go hungry every day
53 3rd
(www.actionagainsthunger.org/countries/africa/Nigeria)
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It is time to think about what we are not eating. It is time to
Think Eat Save
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The challenge is not to
produce more food but to
finds ways to ;
that prevents adequate food
reaching the population.
waste less
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Reducing the amount of food
that is wasted in the system
represents one important lever
to help solve the current and
expanding food crisis.
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Nigeria has a youth population
of 80 million. of them
are unemployed while 1.6 million
are under-employed.
64 million
80 million
64 million
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Youths can develop a cooperative strategy with
each targeted value chain to determine their market
information needs and potential opportunities that could provide to facilitate
regional trade and enhance linkages.
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