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SUMMARY:12th National Food Waste Prevention Day
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DESCRIPTION:National Food Waste Prevention Day is celebrated on February 5
 th\, this year's theme\, #timetoact\, underlines the importance of immedia
 te action to combat this phenomenon and achieve United Nations goal 12.3  
  ISPRA has just published the update on food waste in the new 2025 indicat
 or database. The sad discovery\, a dozen years ago\, that a third of food 
 is not consumed but wasted\, aroused enormous interest from governments\, 
 academia and the sector private. Since then\, although awareness and effor
 ts have increased\, food waste has not decreased. Compared to the first gl
 obal estimates by FAO in 2011 (1.3 billion tonnes)\, recent studies that a
 lso consider losses in the field report 2.5 billion tonnes\, equal to 40% 
 of production (WWF\, 2021)   In order to estimate waste in the entire Ita
 lian food system (systemic waste) ISPRA includes\, in addition to losses i
 n production and consumption chains such as FAO and UNEP\, also overfeedin
 g beyond recommended needs and the net loss in livestock farming resulting
  from input conversion edibles for humans (wheat\, soy\, corn\, etc.). The
  updated result is that approximately 66% of the food energy produced is w
 asted. This tells us that three times what is needed on average is produce
 d and is distributed unfairly and wasted. In terms of kcal/person/day ther
 e is an increase of 17% between 2015 and 2021. Faced with a population red
 uction of 2.7%\, the country's waste (kcal/day) increases by 14%. The caus
 al trend already identified by ISPRA is confirmed. The growth of industria
 l efficiencies generates increases in overproduction and supply which then
  amplify waste and impacts (an effect known scientifically as the Jevons p
 aradox or "bounce").
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URL:https://www.isprambiente.gov.it/en/news/12th-national-food-waste-preve
 ntion-day
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