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A third of food is wasted, making it third-biggest carbon emitter, U.N. says

2013-09-11 10:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: The food the world wastes accounts for more greenhouse gas emissions than any country except for China and the United States, the United Nations said in a report on Wednesday. Every year about a third of all food for human consumption, around 1.3 billion tons, is wasted, along with all the energy, water and chemicals needed to produce it and dispose of it. Almost 30 percent of the world's farmland, and a volume of water equivalent to the annual discharge of the River Volga, are in effect being...

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