date:Nov 13, 2019
Raising awareness, greater innovation - including digital technologies - and investment are needed to reduce food waste and eliminate global hunger. This was stated recently by FAO director-general Qu Dongyu in his keynote speech to the Vatican's Conference on Food Loss and Waste Reduction hosted by the Pontifical Academy of Sciences in Rome.
Pope Francis has described food waste as scandalous and called for urgent economic and social initiatives to end hunger. Bishop Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo, c