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Equally great emphasis has been placed on the reduction of food waste, across all developed countries, as a means of ending the global food crisis [needs update] that left millions worldwide starving and impoverished. In the context of the 2007–2008 world food price crisis, food waste was discussed at the 34th G8 summit in HokkaidÅ, Japan.
Approximately 931 million metric tons (1.03 billion tons) of food produced around the world in 2019 ended up in the trash, according to a research conducted by the United Nations Environment Program.
The Global Food Security Index consists of a set of indices from 113 countries. It measures food security across most of the countries of the world. [ 1 ] It was first published in 2012, and is managed and updated annually by The Economist 's intelligence unit.
Per capita waste generation in OECD countries has increased by 14% since 1990, and 35% since 1980. [3] Waste generation generally grows at a rate slightly lower than GDP in these countries. Developed countries consume more than 60% of the world industrial raw materials and only comprise 22% of the world's population. [4]
However, the links between food loss and waste reduction and food security are complex, and positive outcomes are not always certain. Reaching acceptable levels of food security and nutrition inevitably implies certain levels of food loss and waste. Maintaining buffers to ensure food stability requires a certain amount of food to be lost or wasted.
Indicator 12.3.1.b: Food Waste Index this indicator is a proposal under development; FAO and the United Nations Environment Programme measure progress towards this target. [9]: 10 FAO found that "globally around 14 percent of the world’s food is lost from production before reaching the retail level". [9]: 5
2024 Global Hunger Index by Severity. The Global Hunger Index (GHI) is a tool that attempts to measure and track hunger globally as well as by region and by country, prepared by European NGOs of Concern Worldwide and Welthungerhilfe. [1]
2013 Waste Atlas report is dedicated to global solid waste management assessment and is based on data from 162 countries and 1,773 cities. [9] According to the outcomes of the report, current annual municipal solid waste generation is assessed to about 1.9 billion tonnes with almost 30% of it to remain uncollected. [10]