One third of food produced in world lost or wasted

15 June 2016 - 20:18

By TMG Digital

One third of the food produced in the world for human consumption every year gets lost or wasted‚ the Consumer Goods Forum Annual Global Summit being held in Cape Town heard on Wednesday. This amounts to 1.3 billion tonnes of food per year with an estimated value of US$1 trillion.“According to United Nations FAO‚ the 1.

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