Topic 1.2: Statistics about food waste

“800 million people in the world are starving, while simultaneously 931 million tons of edible food is being wasted annually in the world”

If we could take all the wasted food, we could fed 2 billions people.

FAO’s Food Loss Index (FLI) estimates that globally, around 14 percent of all food produced is lost from the post-harvest stage up to, excluding the retail stage (FAO, 2019).

The European Food Banks Federation (FEBA) distributed 907,208 tons of food to 11.8 million people in 2021;