Interconnection

In today’s world, everything is interconnected.?Have you ever considered that food loss and waste are not only linked to food insecurity but also to climate change?

Roughly one-third of all food produced worldwide is wasted.?Such a waste has a huge carbon footprint.?Globally, wasted food accounts for about?8 percent of all greenhouse gas emissions.?The report:?The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World?2022, shows that the number of people affected by hunger globally rose steeply to as much as 828 million in 2021.

The marine ingredients sector makes good use of left overs:?by-products resulting from fish processing make up one third of fishmeal and fish oil. They’re used in aquafeeds to produce farmed fish.?

As a global trade organisation, it is our role to monitor the?trend towards more circularity. It is also part of our job to understand what our members do to contribute to reducing waste. The same goes with every action that contributes to meeting the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals by 2030.?This is why we have developed a?SDG hub?which highlights what our members are doing to help meet the UN's Sustainbale Development Goals by 2030. We will continue engage with the value chain and enrich the data which help understand the many challenges the food system is going through.