"We celebrate World Food Day at a time when the challenges posed by global hunger, the climate crisis and the Covid-19 pandemic remain formidable, but there is new momentum and new energy in the commitment to transform agri-food systems and make them better suited to face today's situation ".
This was stated by the Director General of FAO, QU Dongyu, in the opening ceremony of the Day which is celebrated on October 16 each year to commemorate the founding of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization.
Crea, in Italy 400 kg of food is thrown away
In Italy 399 kg of food are wasted per week, equal to 4.4% of the weight of the food purchased, with a total value of food products thrown away of 1,052 euros, equal to 3.8% of the food expenditure. It is the result of a three-year survey by Crea-Consiglio for research in agriculture and the analysis of the agricultural economy, on a representative sample of 1,142 Italian families.
The study, published in the international journal Foods, intended to evaluate for the first time the food waste of Italian families, both from a quantitative and monetary point of view.
"It emerged - says Vittoria Aureli of the Food and Nutrition Creation and principal investigator of the work - that in Italy waste is completely unused or partially used and that, in general, all cooked food is consumed, leading to a generally small percentage of leftovers ".
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