Close to one third of all the food Kenyans prepared for Christmas and New Year festivities may have gone to waste, according to several estimates.
According to the Food and Agriculture Organisation, the food was spoiled or wasted before it is consumed.
The problem of food wastage worsens during festivities and FAO has now began a New Year resolution campaign to end it.
“The holidays are a great time to celebrate food and to appreciate it. Yet, holidays have, in some parts of the world, become synonymous with over-eating and food waste,” says FAO.
Food is usually lost or wasted throughout the supply chain, from the farm down to cooked food that is never eaten and is thrown away.
“And food isn’t the only thing that is wasted when it goes uneaten: all of the resources, like seeds, water, feed, money and labour that go into making it are also lost,” FAO said.
