Jordan launches campaign to reduce food waste


AMMAN, March 17 (Xinhua) -- Jordan launched a campaign on Sunday to reduce food waste, emphasizing that the annual volume of wasted food in the kingdom alone could meet the needs of 1.5 million people for an entire year.

When launching the campaign, Khaled Hneifat, Jordan's minister of agriculture and chairman of the Food Security Council, said food waste in Jordan is estimated at 93 kilograms per person per year, or about 955,000 tonnes of food in total, which could feed about 1.5 million people for a full year, according to a statement by the ministry.

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