This document discusses food loss and waste around the world. It notes that over 800 million people do not have enough food and that food loss occurs at various stages of the supply chain, such as during production, storage, distribution and consumption. For example, over 1.3 billion tons of food is lost or wasted each year during supply chain, and thousands of tons of food grains rot in India each year due to lack of proper warehouse facilities. The document also provides examples of food rotting in various countries due to issues in the supply chain and a lack of infrastructure and capacity to properly store and distribute food.

1. Faulty Food Chains
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2. SOME FACTS
• 842 million people in the world do not have
enough to eat
• Asia has the largest number of hungry people
(over 500 million)
• 80 percent of the world stunted children lives
in just 20 countries (developing and low
income countries)
Source: www.wfp.org

3. WHY?
There is enough food for everyone, but not everyone
has enough food.
SOURCE: Enough food for Everyone If Campaign
www.bbc.com/news/magazine-22935692

4. Why is this happening?
• 1.3 billion tones of food is lost or wasted that
can be saved by improving supply chain.
• Every year thousands of tones of food grain
rots in India due to lack of proper warehouse
facilities.
• Food is also wasted at consumption stage.
• Lack of accessibility due to unaffordable food
prices for low income groups.

5. Impacts of Food Loss
• Food security for poor people at stake
• Food quality and safety at risk
• Economic development hurdled
• Environment degraded

6. Food Loss at consumption stage
Food wasted at consumption stage in EMPI cafeteria.

7. Food Loss before Consumption
“In low-income countries food is lost during
the early and the middle stages of the food
supply chain.”

8. A look at the Indian food Scenario
Supreme court of India directed the Central
Government to distribute food grains rotting
due to neglect among the poor at “low cost or
no cost.”

9. The Central pool stocks of rice and wheat had
reached 604.28 lakh tones. But there was no
space to stop the produce and 178 lakh tones of
wheat was stored in Covered and Plinth.
Every thousands of tones of food grain rots in
India due lack of proper warehouse and
facilities.

10. Reasons of Food Loss/Waste
• In broad terms, food losses will be influenced
by-
– Crop production choices and patterns
– Internal infrastructure and capacity
– Marketing chains & channels of distributions
– Consumer purchasing and food use practices

11. 150 tones of wheat rotting in the open
in Punjab, May 12, 2012
Soucre: http://www.ndtv.com/video/player/news/150-tonnes-of-wheat-rotting-in-the-open-in-punjab/279338

12. “Millions of tons of wheat are rotting because India ran
out of warehouse space to hold another bumper crop.
Meanwhile hunger and malnourishment are still problems
in the populous nation.”

13. Aid for Philippines typhoon victims
found rotting in dump, March 12, 2014
Source: http://www.ucanews.com/news/aid-for-philippines-typhoon-victims-found-rotting-in-dump/70468

14. “Tons of relief goods intended for victims of
Typhoon Haiyan in the central Philippines have
been found buried and rotting in a dump in the
town of Palo in Leyte province.”

15. Government-owned corn destroyed in one of
Africa’s poorest countries, September 20, 2012
Source: http://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/2012/09/20/government-owned-corn-destroyed-in-one-of-africas-poorest-countries/

16. “Maize goes to waste in a government
warehouse in Mkushi, Zambia.”
This destruction of food is a calamity for a
country where the UN estimates 64% of its
people are still incapable of placing two meals
on the table. In Zambia, the average rural
farmer is estimated to survive on less than $2
per day.

17. Remedies
• Improvement in food supply chain can help
save the wasted food (Global food losses and
food waste report)
• Increase R&D in supply chain
• Making profitable investments in development
of supply chain.

18. How will it Help?
• Reduce wastage of Food
• Increase Food Security
• A direct impact on the income of both farmers
and consumers.