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Special Interest: Food Waste
Hunger and Food Waste
Food loss and food waste are major contributors to global hunger. If we could recover all the food we waste, we could feed every hungry person on the planet twice over.
Rethinking Packaging, Reducing Waste
What does waste and environmental sustainability look like for the world’s largest humanitarian organization?
Beyond Fridges and Landfills: Shaking Up the Food Waste Debate
At a time when 1 in 9 people go to bed hungry every day while obesity is on the rise, the United Nations has challenged the world to cut global food waste in half by 2030.
Women and Hunger
In nearly two-thirds of countries around the world, women are more likely than men to suffer from hunger and malnourishment. Read their stories and see what WFP is doing to help them achieve equality.
Women Are Hungrier: Reducing Food Waste
Africa’s small-scale farmers lose up to 40% of all the food they harvest. Today, 320,000 farmers across Africa, over half of which are women, participate in WFP’s Zero Food Loss Initiative.
WFP’s Zero Food Loss Initiative: Reaching 200 Million Farmers by 2030
Africa’s smallholder families lose up to 40 percent of their harvest to insects, rodents and mould. But a simple solution can virtually eliminate such losses and improve families’ incomes, food availability, health and nutrition.
How to Cut Food Loss From 40% to 2%
Post-harvest food loss is a major contributor to hunger and under nutrition affecting farming families across Africa. Farmers who chose to participate in WFP’s Zero Food Loss Initiative have seen a drastic reduction in grain losses, a tripling of incomes, and availability of food throughout the lean season.
8 Facts to Know About Food Waste and Hunger
Global hunger isn’t about a lack of food. Right now, the world produces enough food to nourish every man, woman and child on the planet.