【主張】食品ロス削減月間　コロナ禍機に意識持続を

[Claim] Keeping Awareness of Corona Disasters in Food Loss Reduction Month

Food loss in FY2017 amounted to 6.12 million tons. It is calculated that one cup of rice is thrown away every day per Japanese person. It is important whether this fact is felt "wasteful".

How will the entire nation share the food culture that the Japanese have cherished to make the most of the ingredients? We would like to use the reduction month as an opportunity to reduce food waste even a little. Food Loss Reduction Month was set up following the enforcement of the Food Loss Reduction Promotion Act in October last year. It was triggered by the establishment of World Food Day on October 16, 1981, as a day for the United Nations to consider food issues.

The World Food Programme (WFP), the United Nations agency that provids food assistance around the world, was selected for this year's Nobel Peace Prize. As the world is hit by coronas, efforts to eradicate hunger have been highly evaluated. We would like to use this as a global food loss reduction. More than 800 million people, one in nine of the world's total population, suffer from hunger, while 600 million people are obese. The international community is being asked how to get the "food bias" go from being lost. A recent feature of the country is that the eating habits of consumers who spend more time at home in coronats are changing and food loss is decreasing.

The results of a survey on food loss conducted by House Foods Group Inc. in June and July this year. The number of people who answered that there was no food loss increased by about 10 points from the previous year to 17%. The company thinks that the increase in cooking opportunities due to the nesting of coronas and public-private awareness activities have spread, and that there is a growing awareness of reducing food loss. I want to establish this momentum.

It is a problem that worries the producer side that it is not forgotten. A&S (representative of Takayuki Ohira), an agricultural production corporation in Kasaoka City, Okayama Prefecture, lost its commercial shipping destination with coronas and discarded a large amount of surplus onions.

In order to reduce food loss at the production site, detailed support by the government and local governments is essential.

Source: https://www.sankei.com/economy/news/201019/ecn2010190001-n1.html