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Food wastage Food wastage

4.1 The impacts from wastage

Roughly one-third of the food produced in
the world becomes food wastage or food Food losses 763 billion boxes of
that’s lost (Baldwin 2015, 143). pasta (FAO 2018).

This means approximately 1.3 billion tonnes per year globally. That generates
massive environmental cost and is a huge environmental burden for all of us.
It’s good to remember that in the future we need to produce 60% more food If we are thinking globally fruits and vegetables (44%), roots and tubers
by year 2050 because the population is growing all the time. It’s important to (20%) and cereals (19%) have the highest wastage rates of any food as you
find the ways to reduce food wastage. can see in figure 13 “Lost and wasted food by weight”.
(Baldwin 2015, 143-145.)
However, first and third highest food contributions of carbon footprint of food
Figure 13. Lost and wasted food by weight (Baldwin 2015, 144) - (Galileo.it) wastage are cereals (34%) and fruits and vegetables (21%) because of the
fertilizers. Meat (21%) is second highest food contribution of carbon footprint
of food wastage.
(Baldwin 2015, 143-145.)

Photo: Field cultivation from Keuruu, Finland by O. Haapakorpi (CC-BY-NC-ND)

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