Sustainable Food Systems Symposium 2024

Session

World Café - Food Loss and Waste

18 Sept 2024, 15:30

0.101 (Heyne-Haus)

226. Food Loss and Waste

Adriana Bernal, Liesbeth Colen (University of Göttingen)

18/09/2024, 15:30

World Café

In 2011, FAO estimated that about one third of the world’s food goes lost or wasted. About 60% is lost in supply chains, while the other 40% is wasted after retail, at the level of the consumer. To produce all that food, we need land, water, inputs, energy. It requires labor and effort and generates an environmental cost. Food loss and waste generates about 24% of greenhouse gas emissions from...