OpinionIn a Daily Star column, Umme Salma writes that about 34 percent of the food Bangladesh produces is lost or wasted, while 66 percent of people cannot afford a healthy diet.
On the international day on food loss and waste, more than 10 hotels and restaurants in Maijdee, Noakhali, agreed to record their daily food waste and display it to diners; each throws away 50 kg or more a day.
About 1.4 billion hectares grow food that is never eaten, FAO says, and the world has made no apparent progress on food losses since 2015; a new interactive Food Loss Index map was released.
CGIAR's urban food systems lead Dr Mukani Moyo points to compost in Vietnam, insect feed in Nairobi schools and food rescue in Lima, and says technology alone will not solve losses. The views are the writer's own.
OpinionOn the international day of awareness of food loss and waste, researcher Pavel Partha writes that Bangladesh loses about 3.5 million tonnes of food a year, some 82 kg a person, and needs a national roadmap.
An FAO programme funded by the EU and Sweden gave Georgian hazelnut growers food-safety training and matching grants for dryers, cutting the aflatoxin losses that can force a whole harvest to be destroyed.
