Nigeria named Africa’s top food waster with 38 million tonnes lost

Foods

The European Union, along with the Federal Government and the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation, has called for urgent action to end food waste and promote sustainable consumption and production.

They noted that when food is wasted, the water, energy, and labour that went into producing it are also wasted, while accelerating climate change and undermining global efforts to build a zero-waste circular future.

This was disclosed in a statement by the EU delegation to Nigeria and ECOWAS on Monday.

Speaking in Abuja, during the commemoration of this year’s International Zero Waste Day, with the theme “Food waste reduction – minimisation and valorisation,” Zissimos Vergos, Deputy Ambassador, EU Delegation to Nigeria and ECOWAS, disclosed that Nigeria wastes roughly 38 million tonnes of food every year, more than any other country on the African continent.