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The Challenges

While food produced today is sufficient to feed a large percentage of the population, food
security is amongst the most complex global challenges.

• With increasing • India’s food • India’s food self- • Food packaging,
awareness people demand - sufficiency used for preserving
are expecting expected to challenge - due to and transporting
nutritious and increase decreasing food, is under
affordable high- significantly with agricultural heavy criticism for
quality food.The increasing productivity, being non-
challenge lies in population,better scarce natural biodegradable
managing & incomes, resources and
processing the expanding climate change
food produced, to urbanization, and
enhance its life dietary changes.
and reduce
greenhouse gas
FOOD FACTS emissions.

33%

food produced
goes waste

3.3 1.4

gigatons of billion hectares
CO annually (30% of available
2
agricultural land)

India’s carbon Agricultural
footprint from land used for
food spoilage growing food
which is
subsequently
wasted
Estimates of the Food and 13%
Agriculture Organization (FAO)
Consumption
30% Photo Credit : Dai-Ichi Kararia
15% Production
Distribution market
4%
Processing
37%
Handling & Storage
Info Credit : IPUA

Typical food wasted along the value chain

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In Pursuit of Sustainable Development