{"id":7743,"date":"2020-01-24T09:12:33","date_gmt":"2020-01-24T06:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=7743"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:49","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:49","slug":"how-powering-food-storage-could-end-hunger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2020\/01\/24\/how-powering-food-storage-could-end-hunger\/","title":{"rendered":"How Powering Food Storage Could End Hunger"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By Roberto Ridolfi &amp; Olivier Dubois<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In our fight against global warming, energy efficiency is the low-hanging fruit of cutting carbon emissions. It reduces the need to produce more energy and is quick, easy and inexpensive.\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/unstats.un.org\/sdgs\/report\/2016\/Goal-02\/\" target=\"_blank\">The goal of ending global hunger by the UN\u2019s target of 2030<\/a>\u00a0must also start with efficiency. That means reducing food waste, which can only happen with refrigerated storage. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">n developing countries,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fao.org\/save-food\/resources\/keyfindings\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">40% of food loss occurs after harvest and early in the supply chain<\/a>. This translates to&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fao.org\/save-food\/resources\/keyfindings\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">more than $310 billion of food waste and loss annually<\/a>&nbsp;\u2013 mostly because of inadequate refrigeration and unreliable and expensive energy supply. Food loss affects producers, reducing their income by at least 15%, and consumers.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/wriorg.s3.amazonaws.com\/s3fs-public\/uploads\/FLW_graphic2.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">At the same time, food waste is the third-largest emitter of CO2 globally<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In rural areas of Sub-Saharan Africa and developing Asia, where the electricity grid does not reach or does not work, access to energy \u2013 especially decentralized renewable solutions such as solar and hydro-powered mini-grids \u2013 is fundamental. Our analysis shows significant productivity increases and food loss decreases if adequate access to energy is provided to rural communities. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/agenda\/2019\/12\/how-to-reduce-food-waste-end-hunger\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Roberto Ridolfi &amp; Olivier Dubois In our fight against global warming, energy efficiency is the low-hanging fruit of cutting carbon emissions. It reduces the need to produce more energy&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}