Confronting food waste becomes increasingly urgent when we are faced with alarming data from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) indicating that 1 billion tons of food were wasted in 2022. This amounts to about one-fifth of total global production. Meanwhile, 41 million people in Latin America and the Caribbean, in addition to 733 million worldwide, are facing hunger, according to the report The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World, from the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and other UN agencies. Read More