Effects of food waste

The Effects 

While the consumers are wasting food indiscriminately , the effects of wasting food are happening throughout the world and effecting every living being on our precious Earth.

1. Biodiversity loss 

→ Food wastage impacts on biodiversity loss at a global level. In order to maximize agricultural yields , farmers have increasingly invaded wild areas in search for more fertile lands which had led to loss in biodiversity.

→  Practices such as slash and burn , deforestation , and conversion of wild areas into farm lands have destroyed the natural habitats for animals.

2. Wastage of the 1/3 of the world fertile land areas.

→ According to research , the produced but unconsumed food accounts for approximately 1.4 billion hectares of land , constituting almost 1/3 of the planet's agricultural land.

→  By looking at this from a well thought analytical angle , the world is wasting 30 percent of the world's fertile land which could be used for other meaningful purposes such as environmental research.

3. Blue water footprint

→  The volume of water used in agricultural food production is immerse. Therefore , if 30 percent of all the food produced goes to waste , then it means that more than 30 percent of freshwater used in the production and processing of food also goes to waste.

→  This contributes to blue water footprint  which refers to the amount of consumed surface and groundwater resources that goes to waste.

Fun facts !

• Precise estimations indicate that food wastage is responsible for the wastage of nearly 250 cubic kilometers (km3) of water.

• This wastage is equivalent to thrice the volume of Lake Geneva.

Map of Lake Geneva