Green Options » Last Minute Market http://greenoptions.com/tag/last-minute-market Posts tagged 'Last Minute Market' Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:47:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en How Much Food Do We Waste? http://ecoworldly.com/2008/06/26/how-much-food-do-we-waste/ http://ecoworldly.com/2008/06/26/how-much-food-do-we-waste/#comments Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:47:48 +0000 Eva Pratesi http://ecoworldly.com/2008/06/26/how-much-food-do-we-waste/ The FAO’ Food Security Summit, recently held in Rome, gathered together the international community to discuss about the state of poverty around the world. In 1996 the Millennium Goal aimed to cut by half the number of hungry people by 2015, then estimated at 800 million; today the goal is not only far from the original prediction but other 50 million are suffering. We need more food, we have to increase the production and Europe is starting to look at GMO cultivations to face this global crisis.

A worrying alarm arrives now from the Italian Farmers Association (CIA): mass amounts of food is sitting and rotting in their fields because sale prices don’t cover all of the costs of production. The result is a 1.5 million of tons wasted every year and 4 billion of Euro frittered away. All this with rising costs for Italian consumers and farmers.

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