Over 1 Billion Tonnes More Food Being Wasted Than Previously Estimated, Contributing 10% of All Greenhouse Gas Emissions

New WWF and Tesco report shows 1.2 billion tonnes of food is lost on farms, on top of the 931 million tonnes wasted at retail and consumption1 : Approximately 40% of all the food grown goes uneaten; To reduce on-farm loss, WWF and Tesco call on global governments and food industry to adopt Target-Measure-Act

Today, WWF and Tesco publish Driven to Waste, a new report that quantifies the total amount of lost on farms globally, revealing an estimated 2.5 billion tonnes of food2goes uneaten around the world each year. That is an increase of approximately 1.2 billion tonnes on the established estimates of 1.3 billion tonnes wasted each year.

Read more www.worldwildlife.org/press-releases/over-1-billion-tonnes-more-food…

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