Two pears have been accidentally forgotten in a corner of the fridge. When they were picked from the local farmer market they were gorgeous, now are wrinkled, slightly rotten. Anyway it’s possible to save them: they can easily be used for a delicious...
The French supermarket Intermarché introduced lumpy and misshapen fruit and vegetables to combat food waste, giving their own aisle and selling them at a 30% discount. “Inglorious Fruits and Vegetables” is the campaign launched in 2014 with the support of advertising...
Global food loss and waste 30 percent of cereals 40–50 percent of root crops, fruits and vegetables 20 percent of oilseeds, meat and dairy products 35 percent of fish [FAO 2015, estimated yearly by quantity at roughly]...
“I thought, this is an opportunity to do something that can make a difference”, Massimo Bottura In a fraying section of downtown Rio, a pack of the world’s most venerated chefs with the help of a crew of orange-aproned servers (some of the volunteers had traveled from...
½ Social and cultural conditions of small- and medium-scale farmers, fisheries, food manufactories are the causes of food loss in low-income countries, where men and women play different roles. In rural settings, while women are often the main actors, social barriers...
Around 1,3 billion tons of food are wasted annually in the world, which correspond to almost 1/3 of the food production (FAO data). Only in EU are thrown away around 88 million tons of edibles, 180 kilos each every year, with associated costs totally estimated at 143...
