{"id":11620,"date":"2021-03-05T17:06:41","date_gmt":"2021-03-05T11:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/?p=11620"},"modified":"2021-03-05T17:06:41","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T11:36:41","slug":"food-waste-index-report-unep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/food-waste-index-report-unep\/","title":{"rendered":"Food Waste Index Report : UNEP"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_68 ez-toc-wrap-center counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-light-blue ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title \" >What's Inside this Blog!<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span 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href=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/food-waste-index-report-unep\/#Indian_households_waste_50_kg_of_food_per_person_per_year_says_UNEP\" title=\"Indian households waste 50 kg of food per person per year, says UNEP\">Indian households waste 50 kg of food per person per year, says UNEP<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/food-waste-index-report-unep\/#The_latest_Food_Waste_Index_Report_released_this_Thursday_March_4_estimates_that_in_2019_931_million_metric_tons_or_17_per_cent_of_the_food_available_for_consumption_worldwide_was_wasted\" title=\"The latest Food Waste Index Report, released this Thursday (March 4), estimates that in 2019, 931 million metric tons (or 17 per cent) of the food available for consumption worldwide was wasted.\">The latest Food Waste Index Report, released this Thursday (March 4), estimates that in 2019, 931 million metric tons (or 17 per cent) of the food available for consumption worldwide was wasted.<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/food-waste-index-report-unep\/#KEY_HIGHLIGHTS\" title=\"KEY HIGHLIGHTS\">KEY HIGHLIGHTS<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/food-waste-index-report-unep\/#Food_waste_in_South_Asian_homes\" title=\"Food waste\u00a0 in South Asian homes\">Food waste\u00a0 in South Asian homes<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/food-waste-index-report-unep\/#Impacts_of_food_waste\" title=\"Impacts of food waste\">Impacts of food waste<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Indian_households_waste_50_kg_of_food_per_person_per_year_says_UNEP\"><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 32px;\">Indian households waste 50 kg of food per person per year, says UNEP<a href=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/40037528-0-image-a-54_1614859069555.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-11621\" src=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/40037528-0-image-a-54_1614859069555.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"534\" height=\"321\" srcset=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/40037528-0-image-a-54_1614859069555.jpg 636w, https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/40037528-0-image-a-54_1614859069555-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/40037528-0-image-a-54_1614859069555-150x90.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 534px) 100vw, 534px\" \/><\/a><\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div class=\"_consumption_cat\">\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_latest_Food_Waste_Index_Report_released_this_Thursday_March_4_estimates_that_in_2019_931_million_metric_tons_or_17_per_cent_of_the_food_available_for_consumption_worldwide_was_wasted\"><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">The latest Food Waste Index Report, released this Thursday (March 4), estimates that in 2019, 931 million metric tons (or 17 per cent) of the food available for consumption worldwide was wasted.<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 class=\"a-keywrap-head\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"KEY_HIGHLIGHTS\"><\/span>KEY HIGHLIGHTS<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div class=\"highlights-point\">\n<ul>\n<li class=\"mar-b10\">At household level, nearly 61 per cent of food goes into waste bins, the reports states.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"highlights-point\">\n<ul>\n<li class=\"mar-b10\">Food waste has social, environmental and economic impacts.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"highlights-point\">\n<ul>\n<li class=\"mar-b10\">Hunger affected 690 million in 2019, according to the United Nations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In an eye-opening revelation, Indian households waste 50 kilograms of food per person per year, according to the United Nations Environment Programme\u2019s Food Waste Index Report\u00a02021.<\/p>\n<p>The latest Food Waste Index Report, released this Thursday (March 4), estimates that 931 million metric tons (or 17 per cent) of the food available for consumption worldwide in 2019 was wasted by homes, institutions, retail outlets and restaurants. Homes are responsible for most of the food waste.\u00a0Nearly 61 per cent of consumer-level food goes into waste bins each year at the household level, the report states.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Food_waste_in_South_Asian_homes\"><\/span><strong>Food waste\u00a0 in South Asian homes<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The report notes that food waste at the consumer level happens in almost every country, regardless of income level. In South Asia, while\u00a050 kilograms of food is wasted per person each year at household level in India, 65 kilograms of this happening in Bangladesh, 74 kilograms in Pakistan, 76 kilograms in Sri Lanka, 79 kilograms in Nepal and 82 kilograms in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Impacts_of_food_waste\"><\/span><strong>Impacts of food waste<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Food waste has serious social, environmental and economic impacts. \u201cReducing food waste would cut greenhouse gas emissions, slow the destruction of nature through land conversion and pollution, enhance the availability of food and thus reduce hunger and save money at a time of global recession,\u201d said Inger Andersen, UNEP Executive Director. \u201cIf we want to get serious about tackling climate change, nature and biodiversity loss, and pollution and waste, businesses, governments and citizens around the world have to do their part to reduce food waste,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian households waste 50 kg of food per person per year, says UNEP The latest Food Waste Index Report, released<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11499,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[123,844,114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs","category-gs","category-sociology-optional"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11620"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11622,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11620\/revisions\/11622"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}