The world wastes two billion tons of food

More than two billion tons of food is not being eaten worldwide, a new report says, double what was previously thought, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday.

An estimated 2.5 billion tons of food is lost on farms or wasted by retailers or consumers globally, accounting for about 40% of production, according to research by WWF and retailer Tesco plc. " in the UK.

They said in a report that the number is higher than previous estimates by about 1.2 billion tons, while a large proportion of food is wasted on the farms of the wealthiest countries.

Researchers have been trying for years to gather data on the true extent of food waste, which the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says is responsible for up to 10 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions.

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