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Written by Ivana Katsarova.

The world produces enough food to feed everyone, and yet over 700 million people faced hunger in 2023. Worryingly, at least one billion meals are being wasted in households worldwide every day, thus exacerbating the problem by reducing the amount of food available for consumption.  This is the equivalent of 1.3 meals served every day to every single person in the world suffering from hunger. Importantly, when food is discarded, all the embedded energy and resources and their environmental consequences, such as greenhouse gas emissions, that accumulate along the food chain still materialise with no benefit for human nutrition.

In the European Union (EU), nearly 60 million tonnes of food – representing 132 kilogrammes per person – were wasted in 2022, of which over half (54 %) was in households. The environmental impact of this amount of food waste accounts for 254 million tonnes of CO2 and 342 billion cubic meters of water, used in the production process.  

The United Nations (UN) General Assembly designated 29 September as the International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste. Committed to reaching the UN Sustainable Development Goal target to halve per capita food waste by 2030, Parliament and Council agreed on binding reduction targets of 10 % in food processing and manufacturing and 30 % per capita in retail, catering, food services and households, by the end of 2030 compared to the annual average generated between 2021 and 2023. 

In the EU, priority is given to preventing waste and encouraging the donation or redistribution of food for human consumption over animal feed and other uses. A 2023 analysis of 332 food waste prevention actions carried out in the 27 EU countries shows that 93 % of actions are targeted at the highest level of the ‘food use hierarchy’, thus witnessing the countries’ ongoing efforts to fight food waste. However, efforts are mainly focused on awareness-raising and education (62%), while market-based measures (4%) and regulatory interventions (1%) remain limited.

Read this infographic on ‘International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste 2025‘ in the Think Tank pages of the European Parliament.

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