Food waste!
According to a finding of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, the annual estimated value of global food waste is $1 trillion. To produce this wasted food, 30 percent of the world’s agricultural land is being used. This global food waste emits 3.3 giga tons of greenhouse gases – which, if counted as a nation, would rank as the third-largest greenhouse gas emitter after the US and China. If we look at the Bangladesh scenario, it would be evident that food is wasted mainly at the production and post-harvest levels due to lack of access to technology and infrastructure plus protected marketing system. Appropriate actions need to be taken both at global and country levels to stop food wastage. In the developing world, political stability is a must for attaining sustainable food security through containing food waste.
Professor M Zahidul Haque
SAU Dhaka
