How many tons of food are produced each year?

Globally, we throw out about 1.3 billion tons of food a year, or a third of all the food that we grow. That’s important for at least two reasons.

How many tons of food Does the world Produce?

The world’s food production (top 20) is 7.19 billion metric tons. The world produces enough food (top 20) for everyone in the world to have 2,212.6 pounds per year.

How many tons of food we produce is thrown away?

Roughly one-third of the food produced in the world for human consumption every year – approximately 1.3 billion tonnes – gets lost or wasted.

How much food is wasted globally FAO?

One-third of food produced for human consumption is lost or wasted globally, which amounts to about 1.3 billion tonnes per year.

What are solutions to food waste?

4) Put new groceries in the back of your fridge or pantry, so you’ll use older food first, before it expires. 5) Learn to reuse food for another meal. 6) Use all of your produce by getting creative. 7) Go trayless when eating at cafeterias – you’ll waste less when you can’t take as much food at once.

How many people could be fed with food waste?

What if one quarter of the food lost or wasted globally was actually consumed instead of spoiled? It would be sufficient to feed 870 million people, 12% of the world’s current population, and more than 20X in excess of the goods we’d need for those 43 million people to get a quality meal every single day.

Which country wastes the most food 2021?

China came first with an estimated 91.6 million tonnes of discarded food annually, followed by India’s 68.8 million tonnes.

The data below are from 1960 to 2018, relating to the total number of tons of food generated, recycled, composted, combusted with energy recovery and landfilled. *Note that 2018 was the first year for which EPA used a new methodology, so the generation estimates increased due to the expanded scope of the new methodology.

Which is the largest source of food waste?

The largest source of food waste is in the production phase where over 500 million tons is lost due to things like crop pests and ineffective harvesting and irrigation. This is followed by “postharvest handling and storage” and “consumption” both with around 350 million tons. These three phases account for around 75% of all food waste.

How much food does the world waste per capita?

The world population will continue to grow and reach 8.6 billion in 2030. That’s around 800 million people more than in 2020. This means that even if the target of cutting in half waste per capita (of a third of total food waste) total global food waste could still go up. And that’s a problem.

How much food waste is composted each year?

EPA estimates that 2.6 million tons of food waste was composted in 2017, or 6.3 percent of total food waste.