{"id":109990,"date":"2021-03-11T12:49:35","date_gmt":"2021-03-11T12:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=109990"},"modified":"2021-03-11T12:49:37","modified_gmt":"2021-03-11T12:49:37","slug":"food-waste-index-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/food-waste-index-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Food Waste Index 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question- The \u201cFood Waste Index 2021\u201d is recently published by-<\/strong><br>(a) UNEP<br>(b) FAO<br>(c) WTO<br>(d) IMF<br><strong>Ans. (a)<br>Related Facts-<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The \u201cFood Waste Index Report 2021\u201dis released by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and partner organisation WRAP on 4th march 2021.<\/li><li>The index was prepared by using data from 54 countries and then extrapolated to the remaining countries.<\/li><li>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.<\/li><li>The food waste amounted to a whopping 931 million tonnes of food sold to households (61%), retailers (13%) and restaurants (26%).<\/li><li>The document noted that on an average, 74 kilograms of food was wasted per capita at the household level.<\/li><li>Developed countries like Austria and South Africa produce very low amounts of waste at 39 kg \/ capita \/ year and 40 kg \/ capita \/ year respectively.<\/li><li>On the other hand, countries like Nigeria and Rwanda are producing waste at 189 kg \/ capita \/ year and 164 kg \/ capita \/ year respectively.<\/li><li>For India, the waste in kg \/ capita \/ year was 50.<\/li><li>Food loss and waste causes about $940 billion per year in economic losses. Reductions can save money for farmers, companies, and households.<\/li><li>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.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Reference- <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/wedocs.unep.org\/bitstream\/handle\/20.500.11822\/35280\/FoodWaste.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/wedocs.unep.org\/bitstream\/handle\/20.500.11822\/35280\/FoodWaste.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question- The \u201cFood Waste Index 2021\u201d is recently published by-(a) UNEP(b) FAO(c) WTO(d) IMFAns. (a)Related Facts- The \u201cFood Waste Index Report 2021\u201dis 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. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":109991,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1087],"tags":[7430],"class_list":["post-109990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-intne","tag-international___en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109990"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109992,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109990\/revisions\/109992"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}