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National Pact, aimed at halving food waste by '25, presented in France
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Monday, 17 June, 2013, 08 : 00 AM [IST]
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France
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fiogf49gjkf0d William Garot, France's delegate minister in charge of food, presented the National Pact to fight against food waste, which aims to halve food waste by 2025.
With the official support of the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), he made the first signatures of the pact with the representatives of all sectors involved, reflecting the strong mobilisation of all actors in the food chain – producers, markets, agri-business, retail, catering, local authorities, associations of food aid, consumer associations and associations of defence of the environment.
Among the major challenges facing the world is the need to feed nine billion people by 2050. In a context of crisis and as the planet are still 870 million undernourished, the fight against food waste is more than ever a major issue in our society.
Yet every year, it is 1.3 billion tonne of food is lost or wasted, a third of the food produced in the world. In France, every household throws the equivalent of 20kg of food per year – 7kg yet fully packed – a mess which represents a loss of € 400 per year per household.
Faced with this alarming finding, the signatories to the National Pact signed it after close consultation with all stakeholders to ensure a solid base and a good base for all, and is available in eleven measures to fundamentally change our habits but also processing and marketing of food products in France.
“Fighting against food waste, it is a choice against selfishness, against individualism for a more cohesive and responsible society, because it is something outrageous, profoundly unjust in the fact of throwing food when so many French depend on food aid to live or that millions of men, women and children do not go hungry,” Garot insisted.
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