Eliminating waste could end world hunger and ease CO2 emissions

THE food wasted in France could feed the under-nourished in the Democratic Republic of Congo and the amount discarded in Italy could put an end to hunger in Ethiopia, according to a new report on the ethics of modern development in agricultural technologies.

Likewise, the British Government’s waste agency (WRAP) estimates that a third of all food bought in Britain is thrown away and that the amount of greenhouse gases used to produce and transport this wasted food is the equivalent of the pollution from 20% of the British car fleet.

European agriculture and rural development commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel, writing in her internet blog, said putting a stop to wasting food would not only raise food availability but also have a huge impact on CO2 emissions.