Food Wastage Footprint

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1. The loss and waste of 1/3 of all the food the world produces each year means:

            -an ________________________

-all of the _________________________ used for growing, processing, packaging, transporting and marketing that food are wasted.

2. 28% of the world’s _____________________________________ grows crops that are wasted.

3. The water wasted in growing them equals the ______________________________ of the Zambese or the Volga rivers, an amount which could cover all the world’s water household needs.

4. Forests and ____________________________ are lost along with their ______________________.

5. Food producers can invest in better _______________ and _____________ technology to avoid food loss.

6. Food retailers can reduce prices of that imperfectly shaped vegetable and _________________ unsellable yet ______________ surplus grocery food to those in need.

7. Individual consumers can be:

            -more careful shoppers, use better methods to store and recycle __________________

            -and _________________ smaller _______________ in restaurants.

8. Policy makers can…

-develop capacities of food producers to adopt _______________ technologies.

-revise those ___________________ so perfectly safe food is not discarded.

-launch ______________________________ to inspire consumers to try to stop food wastage.

-reduce landfills through investments in transforming food waste into _________________ and biogas.

9. It will take the _______________________ of all to reduce food loss and waste so that all the natural resources used to produce food will end up as _________________ for the world’s population instead of as ___________________ in landfills.