Kenya: Forty-Five Per Cent of Global Food Goes to Waste

Almost half of the world's fruit crops grown on pasture never reach their consumers, but instead go to waste as they rot or are thrown away.

According to a Save Food report, 45 perc ent of the fruits and vegetables produced worldwide end up not in stomachs of the hungry, but wasted. The report paints a gloomy picture of the Kenyan mango consumption, with approximately 64 per cent of all mangoes harvested in the country going to waste.

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