This document discusses food wastage, its causes, consequences, and potential solutions. It notes that 795 million people worldwide do not have enough food and outlines some of the health impacts of malnutrition. Common causes of food wastage include lack of communication between farmers, premature harvesting, excess production, and issues during distribution and consumption. Consequences include greenhouse gas emissions, resource wastage, and loss of soil fertility. Solutions proposed include improving infrastructure, packaging, transportation, and marketing systems to reduce losses, as well as using food waste to generate biogas or fertilizer. Technology like apps and biogas plants can also help address the problem.

1. SUBMITTED BY:
Harmandeep Kaur (L-2013-HSc-11-BND)
Karamjit Kaur (L-2013-HSc-19-BND)
Kritika Gupta (L-2013-HSc-20-BND)
Loveneet Kaur (L-2013-HSc-21-BND)
Ravneet Kaur (L-2013-HSc-28-BND)

2. FOOD WASTAGE
FOOD LOST
Agricultural
Production &
Harvest
Processing
FOOD WASTE
Distribution
And Retail
Restaurants &
Catering
Domestic
Consumption

3. HIGHLIGHTS
 Some 795 million people in the world do not have enough food to lead a
healthy active life. That’s about one in nine people on earth.
 The vast majority of the world’s hungry people live in developing countries,
where 12.9% of the population is undernourished.
 Poor nutrition causes nearly half (45%) deaths in children under five—3.1
million children each year.
 One out of six children—roughly 100 million—in developing countries is
underweight.
 One in four of the world’s children are stunted. In developing countries the
proportion can rise to one in three.
 9. 66 million primary school-age children attend classes hungry across the
developing world, with 23 million in Africa alone.

4. CAUSES
OF FOOD
WASTAGE
LACK OF
COMMUNICATION
AND
COOPERATION
BETWEEN
FARMERS
PREMATURE
HARVESTING
RETAILCONSUMPTION
EXCESS
PRODUCTION

6. CONSEQUENCES
OF FOOD
WASTAGE
EMISSION OF
GREENHOUSE
GASES
WASTAGE
OF
RESOURC
ES
EMISSION OF
TOXIC GASES
WHEN WASTED
FOOD IS
BURRIED IN
LANDFILLS
UNNECESSARY
EXPENDITURES
OF FRESH
WATER
LOSS OF
SOIL
FERTILITY

7. To grow
crops farmer
has to
plough his
field.
From time to
time, the
farmer has
to sprinkle
fertilizers
and
pesticides on
his crops.
When the
crop is ready,
the farmer
has to
harvest his
crop.
THINK BEFORE YOU THROW !
After
harvesting,
the farmer
stores the
grains in the
warehouses.
…………and
you easily
THROW it
??!!

8. Some live like this..

9. ..and some like this

10. CAUSES &
PREVENTION
OF
FOOD LOSS & FOOD
WASTE

11. Poor storage facilities, packaging and lack
of infrastructure cause postharvest food
losses in developing countries
PREVENTION: Investment in
infrastructure, packaging and
transportation

12. Unsafe food is not fit for human
consumption and therefore is wasted
PREVENTION: develop knowledge and capacity
of food chain operators to apply safe food
handling practices.

13. Lack of processing facilities causes
high food losses in developing
countries
PREVENTION: improve investment climate
for agro-industry
Develop contract farming linkages between
processors and farmer

14. • Large quantities on display and a wide range of products
in supply lead to food waste in industrialized countries
• Inadequate market systems cause high food losses in
developing countries
PREVENTION: marketing
cooperatives and improved market
facilities

15. The small and medium scale food industry in
developing countries has no access to good
quality packaging materials and technology
PREVENTION:
Pre packing and contract packing
Use of reconditioned 2nd hand packaging
machinery

16. STOREFOODCORRECTLY
SHAREEXTRAFOOD
EATWHATYOUBUY
BUYONLYWHATYOUEAT
Simple Steps to STOP FOOD WASTAGE

17. SEE THE DIFFERENCE!!!!!

18. USING
TECHNOLOGY
TO REDUCE
FOOD
WASTAGE

19. FOOD WASTE INTO PLANT FOOD
Hospital Food Waste (around
400-500 kg per day; mostly rice,
vegetables and fruit peels)
Fermentation (With the
help of enzymes, and
within 24 hours)
Clear, Transparent
Liquid (FERTILIZER)
BENEFITS
20%
decreased
requirem
ent of
fertilizer
More
than 90%
of the
waste is
handled
Proven
health
benefits
for
plants
Kowloon Hospital,
Hong Kong | 2016

20. FOOD WASTE AS FUEL FOR BIOGAS PLANT
NIT – T | 2016
The National Institute of Technology, Trichy (NIT-T), will set up a biogas
plant, NISARGRUNA, to produce bio-gas out of food waste, in collaboration
with Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) Mumbai.
Hostels
for
cooking
Biogas
Food
Waste
(Feed for
Biogas
plant)
Hostel
Mess

21. APPS TO REDUCE FOOD
WASTAGE AND HELP
FEED THE HUNGRY
ZERO
PERCENT |
CHICAGO
FOOD COWBOY
| USDA, EPA,
FAO, WFP | USA
PAREUP |
NEW YORK
WASTE NO
FOOD |
CALIFORNIA
NO FOOD
WASTE |
NEW DELHI