FAO sounds alert about growing food waste in Asia Pacific region. At an event in Bangkok on 27 August, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) denounced the “huge amount of food that goes to waste” in the Asia-Pacific region, which is now having to confront harvest and distribution losses of around 30%. According to the FAO, 30% of grains are being lost and up to 42% of fruit and vegetables produced in the region. This is due to bad planning, destruction wreaked by...