Faulty Food Chains

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Aparup 02

Sadhana 20

Rukhsar 26

Radheyshyam 197

SOME FACTS

• 842 million people in the world do not have enough to eat

• Asia has the largest number of hungry people (over 500 million)

• 80 percent of the world stunted children lives in just 20 countries (developing and low income countries)

Source: www.wfp.org

There is enough food for everyone, but not everyone has enough food.

WHY?

SOURCE: Enough food for Everyone If Campaign www.bbc.com/news/magazine-22935692

Why is this happening?

• 1.3 billion tones of food is lost or wasted that can be saved by improving supply chain.

• Every year thousands of tones of food grain rots in India due to lack of proper warehouse facilities.

• Food is also wasted at consumption stage.

• Lack of accessibility due to unaffordable food prices for low income groups.

Impacts of Food Loss

• Food security for poor people at stake

• Food quality and safety at risk

• Economic development hurdled

• Environment degraded

Food wasted at consumption stage in EMPI cafeteria.

Food Loss at consumption stage

“In low-income countries food is lost duringthe early and the middle stages of the foodsupply chain.”

Food Loss before Consumption

A look at the Indian food Scenario

Supreme court of India directed the Central Government to distribute food grains rotting due to neglect among the poor at “low cost or no cost.”

The Central pool stocks of rice and wheat had reached 604.28 lakh tones. But there was no space to stop the produce and 178 lakh tones of wheat was stored in Covered and Plinth.

Every thousands of tones of food grain rots in India due lack of proper warehouse and facilities.

Reasons of Food Loss/Waste

• In broad terms, food losses will be influenced by-

– Crop production choices and patterns

– Internal infrastructure and capacity

– Marketing chains & channels of distributions

– Consumer purchasing and food use practices

150 tones of wheat rotting in the open in Punjab, May 12, 2012

Soucre: http://www.ndtv.com/video/player/news/150-tonnes-of-wheat-rotting-in-the-open-in-punjab/279338

“Millions of tons of wheat are rotting because India ranout of warehouse space to hold another bumper crop.Meanwhile hunger and malnourishment are still problemsin the populous nation.”

Aid for Philippines typhoon victims found rotting in dump, March 12, 2014

Source: http://www.ucanews.com/news/aid-for-philippines-typhoon-victims-found-rotting-in-dump/70468

“Tons of relief goods intended for victims of Typhoon Haiyan in the central Philippines have been found buried and rotting in a dump in the town of Palo in Leyte province.”

Government-owned corn destroyed in one of Africa’s poorest countries, September 20, 2012

Source: http://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/2012/09/20/government-owned-corn-destroyed-in-one-of-africas-poorest-countries/

“Maize goes to waste in a government warehouse in Mkushi, Zambia.”

This destruction of food is a calamity for a country where the UN estimates 64% of its people are still incapable of placing two meals on the table. In Zambia, the average rural farmer is estimated to survive on less than $2 per day.

Remedies

• Improvement in food supply chain can help save the wasted food (Global food losses and food waste report)

• Increase R&D in supply chain

• Making profitable investments in development of supply chain.

How will it Help?

• Reduce wastage of Food

• Increase Food Security

• A direct impact on the income of both farmers and consumers.