Big Ideas Into Action #13: how and why to tackle food waste

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Food loss and waste is a big deal. It means that a third of the food the world produces never gets eaten, and that carries a cost in terms of carbon, food security, biodiversity loss and health. A quarter of all water used by agriculture is in turn lost because it's used to grow food that's not eaten. So what is to be done? In this podcast I turned to Liz Goodwin, WRI's lead on food loss and waste for the overall picture. I heard from Toine Timmermans of Wageningen University about how behaviour change makes a difference in reducing the amount lost. Yolanda Kakabadse - Ecuador's former environment minister and the former president of WWF International - told me about where the main problem was in Latin America, and measures being taken to stop it. I also took a quick look in my fridge to see how much I was contributing to the problem. For more, go to https://champions123.org/ and www.wri.org/our-work/topics/food, and follow WRI's food program on https://twitter.com/WRIFood. Liz is https://twitter.com/LizGoodwin and Toine is https://twitter.com/ToineTimmermans.