Food Waste – A Global Challenge to Sustainability
Food Wastage Reduction Management Android App Food Waste – A Global Challenge to Sustainability Acting on the food wastage, can be considered to be having a significant impact on achieving the sustainability goals and can also be a vital auxiliary measure to counteract the imbalance in the global food availability and distribution. This paper tries to summarize from the available data, the global, the national and the community level food wastage scenarios. With a focus on the food wastage due to ‘over consumption’ as one of the high potential source for reduction and the behavioral aspects and habits as obstacles to the goal of sustainability, describes a study conducted by students in a local community to identify and quantify the avoidable food waste at consumer level and proposes that awareness of sustainable living patterns as a superordinate goal. Food is a basic need for the survival and it is estimated that the world population is to hit 9 bill...