On this year’s World Environment Day with its focus on food waste and food loss we are confronted with a tragic paradox. Globally over 870 million people are undernourished while 1.3 billion tons of food - fully one third of all food produced – are lost or go to waste.
One contributing factor is wasteful consumption patterns. The amount of food wasted by consumers in rich countries is almost equivalent to the entire net food production of Africa.
But the problem runs deeper and there is a second, even more troubling paradox: those who are most food insecure and hungry are actually food producers: small-scale farmers or landless rural workers who cultivate small plots of land, rear animals or catch fish. One in every three workers in the world – over one billion women and men – is still employed in agriculture.
See full Press Release: http://www.ilo.org/global/about-the-ilo/who-we-are/ilo-director-general/statements-and-speeches/WCMS_215025/lang--en/index.htm
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