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Food waste

  • Glossary item | 19 Mar 2025

Food and the associated inedible parts removed from the human food supply chain.

United Nations Environment Programme (2024). Food Waste Index Report 2024. Think Eat Save: Tracking Progress to Halve Global Food Waste. Nairobi.

Source category: International Organisation

 

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