event 04 Apr 2012

New CGIAR Research Program // Reducing Food Waste a Key Part of Reducing Water Waste

Cutting down on the amount of food that is wasted around the world is a key component of water management, according to Dr. Colin Chartres, general director of the International Water Management Institute (IWMI).

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Wasting of water through wasting food is one of the key areas Chartres — whose organization, the Colombo-based International Water Management Institute just won this year's Stockholm Water Prize — hopes to address thanks to the new profile IWMI will have at World Water Week in August. In developing countries, food losses mostly happen on the farm or on the way to market due to problems with harvesting equipment and food storage, he said, while in more developed countries, there is a "terrible waste of food" that is simply thrown out uneaten. For the nearly 1 billion desperately poor people in the developing world, many of them living in rural areas, "we need to try to look more at the supply chains, and the whole food production process so smalholders can be provided with opportunities to get into supply chains and markets," he said. Meanwhile, in richer countries, there are another 1 billion people who are overeaters — they are also wasting water through unnecessary consumption as well as straining their countries' health systems. {http://www.ooskanews.com/middle-east-africa/reducing-food-waste-key-part-reducing-water-waste|Read the full article}

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