January 2009 ttable Newsletteradmin on February 1st, 2009
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Spotlight on the World Food Programmeadmin on January 31st, 2009
The World Food Programme (WFP) is a United Nations agency that is also the world’s largest humanitarian organization that combats global hunger. By getting food to people during and after emergencies, the WFP fights hunger worldwide to pursue their vision that every person has access at all times to enough food to live a healthy and active life. They not only provide food aid but also capacity building for countries to reduce hunger in their territory. Each year, their food assistance benefits about 100 million people in 80 countries. The WFP believes that “without food, there can be no sustainable peace, no democracy and no development”.
Learn more about the World Food Programme by visiting their website
The Food We Wasteadmin on December 30th, 2008
The Waste & Resources Action Programme (WRAP) published a groundbreaking report entitled ‘The Food We Waste’ in May 2008. This report highlights some disturbing statistics about food wastage in the UK:
1. A third of purchased food is thrown away- this means 6.7 million tonnes of waste every year!
2. Every household spends £420 on food every year that is thrown out. Households with children waste even more with £610 worth of food thrown out. That is £10 billion of wasted food every year in the UK.
3. Every tonne of food waste is equivalent to 4.5 tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) being emitted into the atmosphere.
4. It costs local authorities £1 billion to send most of this wasted food to landfill.
Click HERE to read the full report from the WRAP website
