Food Waste Index 2021

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) report aims to advance progress on the Sustainable Development Goal 12.3

SDG 12.3 aims at halving per capita global food waste at the retail and consumer levels and reducing food losses along production and supply chains.
This report presents food waste data collection, analysis and modelling to date, generating a new estimate of global food waste.
It publishes a methodology for countries to measure food waste, at household, food service and retail levels, in order to track national progress towards 2030 and to report on SDG 12.3.

Key Highlights:

The 2021 index has revealed that 17% of all food available at consumer levels was wasted in 2019.
The food waste amounted to 931 million tonnes of food sold. Around 690 million people had to go hungry.
It was prepared by using data from 54 countries and then extrapolated to the remaining countries.
On average, 74 kgs of food was wasted per capita/year at the household level. India wastes 50 kg/capita/year.

Recommendations -

Countries can raise climate ambition by including food systems in their NDCs.
Regional Food Waste Working Groups will provide capacity building and training to participating Member States in measuring food waste, developing a national baseline, etc., for food waste prevention.
The UN Food Systems Summit provides an opportunity to launch bold new actions to tackle food waste globally.

Food Loss Index

The Food Waste Index report is in contrast to the Food Loss Index of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
The Food Waste Index covers the later stages of food’s journey - food waste - occurring at household, food service and retail levels.
Food loss and waste cause about $940 billion/year in economic losses.
As of now, none of the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) to the Paris Agreement mention food waste.

Source: TH

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