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Food Wastage Footprints

By the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

In a new report Food Wastage Footprints the waste of 1.3 billion tons of food each year is causing economic losses of $750 billion and significant damage to the environment. This is the first study to analyze the impacts of global food wastage from an environmental perspective, looking specifically at its consequences for the climate, water and land use, and biodiversity.