Question- The “Food Waste Index 2021” is recently published by-
(a) UNEP
(b) FAO
(c) WTO
(d) IMF
Ans. (a)
Related Facts-
- The “Food Waste Index Report 2021”is released by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and partner organisation WRAP on 4th march 2021.
- The index was prepared by using data from 54 countries and then extrapolated to the remaining countries.
- The report has revealed that 17 per cent of all food available at consumer levels was wasted in 2019. That year, some 690 million people had to go hungry.
- The food waste amounted to a whopping 931 million tonnes of food sold to households (61%), retailers (13%) and restaurants (26%).
- The document noted that on an average, 74 kilograms of food was wasted per capita at the household level.
- Developed countries like Austria and South Africa produce very low amounts of waste at 39 kg / capita / year and 40 kg / capita / year respectively.
- On the other hand, countries like Nigeria and Rwanda are producing waste at 189 kg / capita / year and 164 kg / capita / year respectively.
- For India, the waste in kg / capita / year was 50.
- Food loss and waste causes about $940 billion per year in economic losses. Reductions can save money for farmers, companies, and households.
- SDG target 12.3 aims at halving per-capita global food waste at the retail and consumer levels and reducing food losses along production and supply chains.
Reference- https://wedocs.unep.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.11822/35280/FoodWaste.pdf