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STOP FOOD WASTE chief operating officer, Mark Barthel, said It is an op- portunity in need of immediate at- tention as there is a perfect storm facing the world’s food system.
The situation is even worse locally because Aus- tralia does not have the expertise to fix the problem. Speaking at CCN Live, Barthel said over the next 10 years food demand will increase 50 per cent while demand for energy will rise 50 per
cent and water 30 per cent.
Combine this with rising climate risk, a grow-
ing population and middle class, increasing lev- els of urbanisation and the need to alleviate food poverty, and it is the perfect storm.
If global food waste was a country it would be spending $1.8 trillion a year and using 25 per cent of all water used in agriculture while utilis- ing a land mass the size of China to grow food that gets wasted.
“The environmental impact of this country is significant as it would be the third largest emit- ter of greenhouse gas emissions in the world be- hind the United States and China,” he said.
The good news is that Australia is currently working to halve food waste by 2030.
Australia wastes 7.6 million tonnes of food an- nually at a cost of $37 billion.
“This amount of food waste could fill the Mel- bourne cricket ground nine times over and this is at a time when demand for food relief
AUSTRALIAN FOOD PACT
The Australian Food Pact is the latest addition to the arsenal of projects and R&D working to halve the country’s food waste by 2030. Simplot Australia, Woolworths Group, Goodman Fielder and Coles Group are four of the founding signatories, joined by Mars Australia, Mondelēz Australia, ARECO Pacific, and McCain Foods.
The Australian Food Pact follows proven successful voluntary agreements that tackle food waste following the food waste hierarchy – preventing food waste in the first place, donating good food, and supporting food chain transformation and innovation.
The Australian Food Pact will operate from “farm to fork” across the Australian food industry. It will encompass primary production, processing, manufacturing as well as wholesale, retail, hospitality, institutions, and households.
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