The report by the Boston Consulting Group said the amount of food that is thrown away will rise considerably by 2030.
It is already a third of the amount of food produced globally, meaning the increase would take the amount going to waste to 2.1 billion tonnes.
Clare Lyons, Tearfund’s senior campaigner told Premier’s News Hour there wasn’t one person to blame:
“It’s actually not wasted at one stage of the supply chain – it’s wasted at every stage – from farm to fork. So really to tackle it we all need to act – that means government, companies, churches, all of us at home as well.”
Aside from the moral problem of waste in a world where people go hungry, she explained that waste has many more negative consequences:
“It also has a really big impact on some of the poorest people in the world and that’s because it has a huge carbon footprint, when you’re wasting food at this kind of scale. So, this make climate change worse, that leads to more droughts, floods and less reliable rainfall.
“But there is some really good news – if we stopped wasting food from our homes in the UK it would be the same as taking one in four cars off the road. So reducing our food waste is part of the fight against climate change.”
She added: “We’ve been really thankful that churches have been really taking action,
“I visited a fantastic church in Bristol last year who held a food waste feast and…
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