Under the grain crisis, the annual waste of food in the EU is far exceeding the import volume, reaching 153 million tons

【Source: Nine Pai News】

According to the Guardian reported on September 20, a report from the Fedback Global Fedback Global in the UK said that the EU wasted more than imported foods. It is estimated that about 153 million tons of food in the EU each year was wasted, which was twice the previous estimation, which was 15 million tons more than imported foods.

The report pointed out that the amount of wheat wasted alone in the European Union alone was about half of the export of Ukrainian wheat exports and a quarter of the exports of other EU grains. The director of the research report, Frank Mechielsen, said: "At the moment when the price of food prices and the crisis of living costs, the EU may be more imported than its import, which is a scandal. "

Miconson said that the European Union is now a good time that can set a goal with legal binding power, that is, "the food waste from the farm to the dining table by 2030 will be reduced by half to cope with climate change and improve food safety."

Co -chairman of the International Expert Group of Sustainable Food System and Olivier de Schutter, a special reporter of extreme poverty and human rights issues of the United Nations, pointed out that the key to the problem is that the agricultural food industry has always believed that waste is more beneficial to save. "At the ends of the food chain, the cost of reducing waste is high, and it is beneficial to sell foods that they need to be more than they need. The setting of sales as of date also allows people to buy foods that exceed their actual consumption capacity."

Piotr Barczak, a senior policy officer from the non -governmental organization of the European Environmental Protection Agency (EEB), said: "All EU countries have promised to have a waste of food by halving food in the UN's sustainable development goals. The results have produced a lot of food waste. "

As early as May of this year, the World Nature Foundation issued a report that the European Union was "devouring the world." They used Russian and Ukraine to lead the global food supply shortage as an excuse to continue to reduce their environmental protection standards. But in fact, the EU's grain import and domestic production are fundamentally unsustainable, because they occupy natural resources, drive the global forests, and consume fish resources from all over the world. Up to 40%of the food produced by the European Union have never been eaten, this waste has brought a huge price to climate and biological diversity.

According to another recent research report of the calculation results of the Food Waste Index with the Food of the United Nations Environmental Planning Department and the World Natural Foundation Research in 2021, 20%of food production in the EU each year is wasted The loss of 143 billion euros, and the waste of carbon dioxide and methane produced by the waste foods accounted for at least 6%of the EU greenhouse gas emissions.

A study published in "Natural Food" on the 18th found that the trade of wheat and corn can only alleviate the global food shortage caused by the Russian and Ukraine War. %, Will further increase carbon emissions.

Grain market analyst and former senior economist Abdolreza Abbassian (Abdolreza Abbassian) said the era of cheap food has passed. High level, "We must accept this fact, due to the various uncertainty of energy situation, fertilizer situation, including transportation and shipments, and even climate change, we will no longer see the price of grain back 10 years ago 10 years ago. Level."

Jiupai journalist Liang Xia

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