One-third of world's food wasted: UN study

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A new study from the United Nations has found that around one-third of all food produced in the world every year is either wasted or lost.

It says the surprise is that the problem of food waste affects both industrialised and developing countries in almost equal measure.

However, the study says food waste is more of a problem in industrialised countries, where both retailers and consumers throw mountains of perfectly edible food staves into trash bins.

In poorer countries, food losses during harvest and in storage mean lower incomes for small farmers and higher prices for consumers.

The study says this squandering of resources could be reduced by improving harvesting techniques.
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