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Time to stop criminal wastage of food

By Jose Graziano da Silva and Achim Steiner | China Daily | Updated: 2013-10-16 07:25

One point three billion metric tons - that's how much food that we waste each year.

Not an easy number to wrap one's head around. Try to imagine 143,000 Eiffel Towers stacked one on top of the other-together they'd weigh around 1.3 billion tons. The sheer scale of the number makes it practically impossible to grasp, no matter how you come at it.

Rendering the figure all the more unfathomable is the fact that alongside this massive wastage of food, 840 million people experience chronic hunger on a daily basis. Many millions more suffer from "silent hunger" - malnutrition and micronutrient deficiencies.

Time to stop criminal wastage of food

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