This year, the International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste is being observed for the second time in a row. Reduction in food shortages and waste are critical exercises in a world where the count of people suffering from hunger has been steadily increasing since 2014, and thousands of tonnes of edible food is lost and/or wasted nearly every day.
The International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste is an excellent chance to encourage both the public and private sectors to prioritise action and begin moving forward with advancement to minimise food loss and waste. This can help to regain and rebuild improved and more sustainable food systems.
History and Significance
On December 19, 2019, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) marked September 29 as the International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste (IDAFLW). They acknowledged that observing an IDAFLW would make a significant contribution in addressing the severity of the problem and its potential solutions at all stages, as well as helping to promote global efforts and collectivism towards meeting IDAFLW goals.
Without a doubt, this new International Day will confront several obstacles in order to accomplish its aim of “Responsible consumption and production,” which will aid in the battle against hunger and climate change.
Reduced food loss and waste helps to alleviate poverty and hunger while also combating climate change. If we just save one-fourth of the food that is as of now lost or wasted, we could feed 870 million hungry people around the world.
It will also reduce climate change damage, given that food loss and waste accounts for about 8% of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and nearly 30% of the world’s farmland is currently used to produce food that goes unconsumed.
If our food systems are not sustainable, they cannot be robust. As a result, there is a need to concentrate on the concept of integrated techniques to reduce food loss and waste. Global and local actions are necessary to maximise the utilisation of the food we generate.
The use of new technology, creative solutions, new methods of working, and best practices to maintain food quality and decrease food loss and waste is critical to bringing about this transformational change.
The theme for last year’s International Day of Awareness on Food Loss and Waste Reduction was “Stop food loss and waste. For the people. For the planet.”
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