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Press conference - New FAO report on environmental consequences of food waste On
Wednesday 11 September at 10:30h CET FAO will present a new report detailing the environmental impacts of food wastage. Each year, 1.3 billion tonnes of food are lost or wasted, either during production and processing or at the retailer/consumer level. The water, land
and other natural resources used to produce this food also go wasted – while greenhouse gases are released into the atmosphere during food production, processing, and cooking. FAO’s new report,
The Food Wastage Footprint – Impacts on Natural Resources, is the first study to focus specifically on the environmental repercussions of food wastage. A companion publication,
Toolkit: Reducing the Food Wastage Footprint, will also be presented. It contains recommendations for action and examples from around the globe of how the food waste problem is being addressed.
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