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REDUCE YOUR FOOTPRINT - THE CAMPAIGN GATHERS STEAM |
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As a buildup towards World Environment Day, we at Green Hope UAE , are continuing to spread awareness about UNEP's Think.Eat.Save - Reduce Your Foodprint campaign. Since I am the Representative of Children and Youth, UNEP Major Groups Facilitating Committee, I encourage spreading greater awareness amongst our stakeholders about this.
We reached out to civil society with this important message through our article in GULF NEWS , the text of which is as below : While millions of people starve everyday across the world, at least one-third of all the food produced gets wasted in the supply chain process. The statistics are alarming. According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (UNFAO), the annual food wastage amounts to a staggering 1.3 billion tonnes. Compare this with the fact that one of out of every seven people go to bed hungry. Thousands of children die every day of hunger. This is such a shame and stopping this wastage can be one of the key aspects of moving towards sustainability. To create awareness about this major imbalance, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has launched the ?Think.Eat.Save — Reduce Your Foodprint? campaign. This is also the theme of this year?s World Environment Day which is commemorated on June 5. I was fortunate enough to be present at a special dinner on the recent launch of the Think.Eat.Save campaign which was held at UNEP Nairobi. The dinner was prepared out of food ingredients that had been rejected by supermarkets as they were not cosmetically suitable. This food would have been wasted had it not been used for this purpose. It was a real-life lesson to all of us who attended and I am now striving to carry forward this message here through my youth group, Green Hope UAE. As a buildup to World Environment Day 2013, our members will be spreading awareness about reducing food wastage. As a first step, we, ourselves, should ensure that we do not waste food in our homes. I want to reach out to all readers in the hope that they will contribute toward building a more sustainable future. |
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Posted 26-06-2013 01:43
We all can make a difference, Kehkashan
Posted 08-06-2013 02:27
good work Kehkashan....congrats for media coverage :)
Posted 06-06-2013 17:05
thanks for sharing this..
Posted 23-05-2013 22:54
Yes, Venkatesan! We must take that extra effort to stop wastage!
Posted 23-05-2013 13:12
We all should ensure that we do not waste a single morsel of food in our plate and take only that which we can eat.
Posted 22-05-2013 15:29
Thanks Aditya!
Posted 21-05-2013 17:35
Well said Kehkashan. Wastage of food is a two edged sword. It includes misuse of resources that have gone into food production as well in addition to food getting wasted instead of being used to feed the hungry.
Posted 21-05-2013 12:50
Thanks, Dhiroj!
Posted 21-05-2013 12:46
Thanks, Christy! I really hope we are able to create awareness!!!
Posted 21-05-2013 12:45
Good for you!
These days I think a lot about enormous efforts for the production of food and how thankful thing it is that I can eat till I fill full.
It seems your work to spread the message over the globe is now working! :-)
Posted 21-05-2013 11:39
Very nice. Thanks for the information.
Posted 21-05-2013 11:14
Thanks, Dharmendra!
Posted 21-05-2013 02:45
Thanks Smriti!
Posted 21-05-2013 02:44
good report, I really wanna do something on reducing food insecurity in future
Posted 21-05-2013 02:24
Oh....great..Thanks for the report Kehkashan ...!
Posted 21-05-2013 01:00
Yes, Anthon!
Posted 20-05-2013 20:10
Thanks, Arushi!
Posted 20-05-2013 20:10
Let us continue to build a sustainable future! :)
Posted 20-05-2013 18:33
Yes I read this Kehkashan , well written, Congrats.
Posted 20-05-2013 13:55