Caroline Hepker – “Some 40% of all the food produced in the United States is never eaten. In Europe, we throw away 100 million tonnes of food every year. And yet there are one billion starving people in the world. The FAO’s best guess is that one third of all food produced for human consumption is lost or wasted before it is eaten.”

• Food losses and waste in the context of sustainable food systems – A report by The High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition, June 2014.