Food waste leads to hunger and climate change - topic for February promoted by EcoContact

Chisinau, Feb. 1 /MOLDPRES/- EcoContact association, which in 2024 is developing a concept on promoting a topic related to environment protection every month, announces that the proposed topic for February is - Food waste leads to hunger and climate change.

About 30% of all products bought by Moldovans end up in the trash or are wasted. Most of them are food products. Food waste costs the Republic of Moldova more than 15.3 billion lei annually.

If in the villages part of the unused food products are used for animal feed, in the cities everything ends up in the garbage. 

Food loss and waste is also a global challenge. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), approximately one-third of all food produced worldwide is lost or wasted at some point along the food supply chain.

Almost 59 million tons of food is wasted in the EU every year. This means 131 kg of waste per person in a year.

The EcoContact Association is a non-governmental organization and aims to promote sustainable development processes, environmental protection and sustainable use of natural resources. It is operating at the local, national and regional level and is the successor of the Milieukontakt International office in the Republic of Moldova. Since 2013, the EcoContact Association has hosted the Aarhus Environmental Information and Consultancy Center, created with the support of the OSCE Mission to Moldova. The organization has a team of experts in environment, sciences, law, education sectors. They are involved in promoting ecological values at the local, national and international level.