According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) statistical report, 1/3 of the food is wasted every year, and 1.3 billion tons of food is directly discarded. And in our country, just in the catering link to waste 40 billion to 50 billion kilograms of food. A report study shows: as long as the loss or waste of food 1/4 saving can solve the global hunger problem.

So in November 2019, a total of more than 70 countries*** around the world signed a pledge to reduce food waste by improving food refrigeration.

As for the causes of food waste, there is waste throughout the production chain, from the field to the table.

The harvesting process has not been fully mechanized harvesting methods, so if you encounter bad weather will cause food mold; and in the transport sector, due to the logistics facilities and methods are still backward, so the problem of food spilling; and catering links of the waste situation is even more alarming.

Leaders of the relevant departments have said:

China's food losses are large, food saving and loss reduction space is also huge, if calculated according to the total national food production of 663.84 million tons in 2019, if you can reduce the waste rate of 1%, you can save 6.6384 million tons of food, which is equivalent to not investing any land and water resources, not using any pesticides and chemical fertilizers, not wasting any labor to achieve? Increase in food production? This can also be a strong solution to the problem of national food security because of the shortage of food in our country.

In recent years, China has achieved a reduction in food losses through mechanized harvesting of grain, improving traditional storage methods and equipping good logistics and distribution facilities.

And as individuals, we should set up the concept of wastefulness and saving from a young age, and educate and guide our children as well as our friends and relatives to cherish the hard-earned food and develop the traditional virtue of hard work and simplicity. Eating out should also be within their means, rational consumption, as far as possible to do? CD-ROM action? And things like weddings and funerals should not be organized in a big way, in order to drive more people to be thrifty and frugal and reduce food waste.