Renown: Fao, 50% of fruits and vegetables wasted each year – Institutions

(ANSA) – ROME, Nov. 7 – One in five deaths in the world comes from
badociate with poor quality diets yet each
year, more than half of the fruits and vegetables are lost or
wasted and about 25% of all meat produced, equivalent
at 75 million cows, it is not eaten. This is the alarm
launched by FAO which urges policy makers "to give
priority to reduce food loss and waste
as a way to improve access to healthy and nutritious foods. "
The Global Group on Agriculture and Food Systems for Nutrition
In collaboration, FAO published the report "Preventing
loss and loss of nutrients through the system
Food: political actions for high quality diets
outlines how one in five deaths must be badociated with a diet
bad quality; and again, that poor quality diets
represents a major threat to public health
malaria, tuberculosis or measles: all this
third of the food produced for human consumption does not
never reaches the consumer's plate.
"To tackle all forms of malnutrition and to promote
healthy diets – commented FAO Director-General José
Graziano da Silva – we need to put food systems in place
that increase the availability, accessibility and consumption of
fresh and nutritious food for all. l & # 39; adoption
specific actions to reduce the losses and waste of
fresh foods and nutritious foods are a key element of
this effort. "(ANSA).