El desperdicio de alimentos, puesto en contexto
Hannah Ritchie · 2020
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Ritchie da a los alimentos su parte de las emisiones, separa la porción que se cultiva y nunca se come y mide esa parte frente a la aviación y frente a países enteros. El extracto omite los párrafos de cita y de gráfico que quedan en medio.
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- 01Dar la parte entera y luego separar la que se desperdicia
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194 palabras · 11 frasesFood production accounts for around one-quarter – 26% – of global greenhouse gas emissions. This is a lot, but it’s slightly easier to digest when we remind ourselves that food is a basic human need.
What’s harder to make sense of is the amount of greenhouse gas emissions which are caused in the production of food that is never eaten.
Around one-quarter of the calories the world produces are thrown away; they’re spoiled or spilled in supply chains; or are wasted by retailers, restaurants and consumers. To produce this food we need land, water, energy, and fertilizer inputs. It all comes at an environmental cost.
This means that food wastage is responsible for around 6% of total global greenhouse gas emissions. In fact, it’s likely to be slightly higher since the analysis from Poore and Nemecek (2018) does not include food losses on the farm during production and harvesting.
To put this in context: it’s around three times the global emissions from aviation. Or, if we were to put it in the context of national emissions, it would be the world’s third largest emitter. Only China (21%) and the United States (13%) emitted more.
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Hannah Ritchie (2020), “Food waste is responsible for 6% of global greenhouse gas emissions”, published online at OurWorldInData.org, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Reproduced here as an excerpt, unchanged apart from removing footnote markers.