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THE SECRETARY-GENERAL’S MESSAGE ON THE INTERNATIONAL DAY OF AWARENESS OF FOOD LOSS AND WASTE

New York, 29 September 2020

Food loss and waste is an ethical outrage.  In a world with enough food to feed all people, everywhere, 690 million people continue to go hungry and 3 billion cannot afford a healthy diet.

Food loss and waste also squanders natural resources – water, soil and energy, not to mention human labour and time.  It worsens climate change, given the significant...