Written by Fei Fei
The following
table shows the composition of food losses (FAO).
On the other hand, there
has been an increase of people and institutions’ awareness about the issues and
problems related to food. The Second International
Conference on Nutrition, taken place last November in Rome with representatives of more than
170 Governments, was mainly focused on addressing malnutrition in all its forms. The effort is
being sustained through the outgoing “2015 series of international conferences on
food loss and waste reduction”. As the
Expo is approaching, topics related to nutrition are gaining more and more
attention in Italy. The Italian Minister of Environment with Last Minute Market have recently released the Bologna Chart “Stop food waste, feed
the planet” to be signed by the European Governments during
the Expo. The objective of this chart is to develop a long-term commitment and
synergies among European countries against the food waste which at global level
has a significant value of 2060 billion Euros: 4/3 of Italian GDP. The
Chart is planned to be signed during the World Food Day on 16th Oct
2015.
To solve the moral paradox
of a shameful inequality where for every starving person there are two
struggling with obesity (805 million of undernourished and 1.5 billion overweight),
where there are 36 million people perish every year because of lack of food,
the waste, as well as all the other aspect of nutrition, must be at first
priority in Governments’ Agenda. We have to be aware of the challenge we are
going to tackle. We have to be ready to sustainably feed
the planet.
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