Food & Drink

According to the UN FAO, what percent of all food produced for human consumption worldwide is lost or wasted?

Answer

33 percent

Roughly 1.3 billion tonnes of food is lost or wasted every year — if food waste were a country, it would be the world's third-largest emitter of greenhouse gases after China and the US.

Source: UN FAO

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