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tonnes of food wasted EVERY YEAR

1.3 billion

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the entire net fooD pro

duction of Sub

Saharan Africa

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In the United States 30% of all food, worth US$48.3 billion (€32.5 billion), is thrown away each year.

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It is estimated that about half of the water used to produce this food also goes to waste, since agriculture is the largest human use of water.

(Jones, 2004 cited in Lundqvist et al., 2008)

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Almost 1/3 of food produced for human consumption - approximately 1.3 billion tonnes per year - which could feed the total global population of 7 billion is either lost or wasted.

(www.futuredirections.org)

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24% to 35% of school

lunches end up in

the bin

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Wasted foodwasted water.

is also Water

losses accumulate as food is wasted before and after it reaches the consumer.

The irrigation water used globally to grow food that is wasted would be enough for the domestic needs (at 200 litres per person per day) of 9 billion people - the number expected on the planet by 2050.

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If we on land currently used to grow unnecessary surplus and wasted food, this would offset a theoretical maximum of 100% of greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel combustion.

planted trees

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10% of rich countries' greenhouse gas emissions come from growing food

that is never eaten.

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Calculations estimate that food waste accounts for more than a quarter of total freshwater consumption globally.

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(NIFST, 2011)

In Nigeria, excess of tonnes of grain was reported to be lost to spoilage and wastage occasioned by the lack of post harvest management

10 million

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A quarter of the food

produced in Africa

spoils before it reaches

the consumer.

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Rotten food stinks!!! much more dangerous

is the emission of odourless gas

( ) that it produces, which has

greater global warming potential

than carbon dioxide.

methane

(The Produce News-Oct 24, 2013)

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Nearly people go hungry every day. More than under the age of 5 die daily from hunger.(According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO),

one billion20,000 children

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Nigeria has the third highest number of malnourished children in the world.

million Nigerians

go hungry every day

53 3rd

(www.actionagainsthunger.org/countries/africa/Nigeria)

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It is time to think about what we are not eating. It is time to

Think Eat Save

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The challenge is not to

produce more food but to

finds ways to ;

that prevents adequate food

reaching the population.

waste less

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Reducing the amount of food

that is wasted in the system

represents one important lever

to help solve the current and

expanding food crisis.

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Nigeria has a youth population

of 80 million. of them

are unemployed while 1.6 million

are under-employed.

64 million

80 million

64 million

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Youths can develop a cooperative strategy with

each targeted value chain to determine their market

information needs and potential opportunities that could provide to facilitate

regional trade and enhance linkages.

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