Food waste
“Why is a third of all food grown never eaten?”
Root causes (expand to see solutions)
Food waste is really two separate problems, and they need opposite fixes:
What's at stake
Wasted food uses nearly a third of all farmland and costs the economy over $1tn last year; as it rots, it releases methane that accelerates climate change, while close to 800 million people go hungry.
The global picture
Sub-Saharan Africa
High severity
Cereal postharvest losses run 20–30% across the region, costing over $4bn a year — the farm-storage gap PICS bags and ColdHubs both target.FAO / World Bank
This problem occurs worldwide, not concentrated in any one region.