UN: One Third of Food Produced for Human Consumption Is Uneaten

A new report suggests that some 1.3 billion metric tons of food in the world is lost (on the production side of the food supply chain) or wasted (on the consumption side) each year. That’s about one-third of total edibles produced for humans. It’s not the only jarring statistic in the study conducted by the

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UN: One Third of Food Produced for Human Consumption Is Uneaten

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