Think ∙ Eat ∙ Save -My effort to reduce Foodprint (World Environment Day)

The theme for the world Environmental Day was “Think ∙ Eat ∙ Save -My effort to reduce Foodprint”.  The chief objective is to minimize the wastage of the food in all stages of the food chain.  This is to raise awareness about the environmental effects of our food choices and discover ways to reduce environmental foodprint.

Food production has reflective impact on environmental resources. According to the findings, Agriculture is responsible for 70% of fresh water consumption, 80% of deforestation and 30% of greenhouse gas emission etc. The main roots for food production can be high usage of land, loss of biodiversity, soil erosion, water and air pollutions etc.

Although producing enough food for everyone still there are around 90 core people who are staying hungry world over. Therefore on this environmental day we all take a guarantee to make a significance difference individually and collectively to reduce wastage of food and ensure that everyone has enough food to eat and no one is skin-and-bone or in hungry. 

This mission cannot be achieved when we lose the food produced globally. In my view point developed countries waste food more than the less developed countries at different stages. Although tones of food are produced if there is no adequate storage infrastructure the food wastage in every year is higher. This also in the other side shows that loss of energy happens in the same way.

So that this is the opportunity to raise large-scale awareness among the producers, transporters, manufacturers & retailers, regulators, hospitality industry and rich consumers on the negative aspects of wastage of food and how attentive actions can help minimize food loss.

I would like to say that there cannot be sustainable development exclusive of environment as it has significance. You may wonder what this significance is. That is natural resources cannot be replaced. Response to the theme of environmental day, the vital requirement is to become aware of environmental impact on the food choices. If food is wasted, it means all resources and inputs that used in the production are also lost.