DECEMBER 2, 2022

uncovering global food waste

Name: Mohammad Tanvir Ahammad ID: M22010202187
JAGANNATH UNIVERSITY
Dhaka, Bangladesh
 Introduction
The issue of food losses is of high importance in the efforts to combat hunger, raise income
and improve food security in the world’s poorest countries. Food losses have an impact on
food security for poor people, on food quality and safety, on economic development and on
the environment. The exact causes of food losses vary throughout the world and are very
much dependent on the specific conditions and local situation in a given country. In broad
terms, food losses will be influenced by crop production choices and patterns, internal
infrastructure and capacity, marketing chains and channels for distribution, and consumer
purchasing and food use practices. Irrespective of the level of economic development and
maturity of systems in a country, food losses should be kept to a minimum.
 Background
The study highlights the losses occurring along the entire food chain, and makes assessments
of their magnitude. Further, it identifies causes of food losses and possible ways of
preventing them. The results of the study suggest that roughly one-third of food produced for
human consumption is lost or wasted globally, which amounts to about 1.3 billion tons per
year. This inevitably also means that huge amounts of the resources used in food production
are used in vain, and that the greenhouse gas emissions caused by production of food that
gets lost or wasted are also emissions in vain. Food is lost or wasted throughout the supply
chain, from initial agricultural production down to final household consumption. In medium-
and high-income countries food is to a significant extent wasted at the consumption stage,
meaning that it is discarded even if it is still suitable for human consumption. Significant
losses also occur early in the food supply chains in the industrialized regions. In low-income
countries food is lost mostly during the early and middle stages of the food supply chain;
much less food is wasted at the consumer level. At the moment, European depends on import
anting millions of tons of soy from South America, where its production contributes to global
warming, to deforestation, to biodiversity loss, to feed livestock here in Europe.
 Research Question
In my research, my main purpose to find out how to solve food waste problem and in my
research will set three following question:
1. Why is food lost?
2. How much food was being wasted?
3. How people can solve the problem of Global food waste?

Research Methodology
In my primary research first I am go to the Google classroom and download the uncovering
global food waste video. After that, I am open this video and hearing line by line of this
speech. In this time when I am hearing this video then I am write every line on the Microsoft
office.
For my secondary research, I consulted mostly the World Wide Web, using Google as my
standard search engine. Here, I have reviewed various websites and blogs which had the most
recent information, articles from certain researchers and journalists, as well as one or two
newspaper websites for getting some idea regarding food waste.
 Analysis
1. Why is food lost?
Answer: Some food is lost before crops ever leave the farm. Reasons include:
 Farmers over plant to control for adverse weather and end up with surplus if conditions
are favorable.
 Retailers’ high aesthetic standards for fruits and vegetables mean “non-perfect” produce
might not even make it to the truck.
 In low-income countries, limitations in harvesting technology can result in damaged
produce or poor yield.
 Potatoes that are cosmetically imperfect, all going for fogs.

2. How much food was being wasted?

Answer: As a country richer, it invests more and more in getting more and more surplus into
its shop and restaurants and as you can see most European and North American countries fall
between 150 and 200 percent of the nutritional requirement of their population. So, a country
like America has twice as much food on its shop shelves and in its restaurants than it actually
required to feed the American people. In the United States, food waste is estimated at
between 30-40 percent of the food supply. This estimate, based on estimates from USDA’s
Economic Research Service of 31 percent food loss at the retail and consumer levels,
corresponded to approximately 133 billion pounds and $161 billion worth of food in 2010.

3. How people can solve the problem of Global food waste?

Answer: European and American food manufacturers, supermarkets and consumers throw
away between 30% and 50% of their food supply—enough to feed the world's hungry. Waste
also occurs as a result of inadequate harvesting and farming techniques, prevalent in countries
like Pakistan, where the author examines the need for better grain harvesting and land
cultivation. Stuart's thoughtful illumination of the problem and his proposed solutions are
bound to get even the most complacent citizen thinking about how slowly wilting vegetables
might have a second life. Simply growing more food, Stuart argues, is not necessarily the
answer. Agriculture takes up space and often results in deforestation. If rich countries could
cut waste by treating food more carefully, while developing countries gained the equipment
necessary to improve their output, he contends, a significant reduction in global food waste—
and even global hunger could be achieved.
 Conclusion
This study has compiled and analyzed a magnitude of data and reports on food losses and
waste. Waste levels and waste volumes in each step of the food supply chain were estimated.
Causes of and possible ways to prevent food. Further research in the area is urgent, especially
considering that food security is a major concern in large parts of the developing world.