![]() ![]() As per Food and Agricultural Organisation report, nearly 931 million tonnes of food goes to waste each year which accounts for nearly 17% of global food production. COVID-19 has worsened the hunger scenario as from 2019 to 2020, the number of undernourished people grew by as many as 161 million. In India, we do not have an extensive system of collecting food waste and putting it to constructive use.Īccording to the UN Hunger Report, although the world produces enough food to feed the entire global population, still as many as 811 million people go hungry every day. Some of us feel guilty while wasting food which would otherwise have been somebody's nourishment, but do not know what else to do with leftover food. An extra chapati, one leftover piece of bread, veggies from the previous night, and even vegetable peels and trimmings-most of these food items land in the dustbin in a majority of Indian households. ![]()
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