China helps boost global food security


In this undated file photo, farmers load the harvested rice at Gangkou township in Yueyang county, Central China's Hunan province.- Xinhua

BEIJING (China Daily/Asia News Network): China's accumulated experience in reducing food loss and waste is being shared with the world and can help developing countries improve their ability to reduce food loss and ensure food security, experts and officials said.

About 14 per cent of the world's food is lost during the processes from production to retail, and reducing that loss by 1 percentage point would be equal to a 28 million metric ton increase in grain output, which could feed 70 million people for a year, according to the State of Food and Agriculture 2019 report released by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization.

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