and we're seeing some of this where there's value in the food that that's being thrown away. if you can capture it, you can turn it in, keep it in the food supply chain by turning it into the feed or using it as a role ingredient to make your new food products. it takes a lot of, uh, creative energy and just a lot of awareness and education. is there any way to reallocate food, ways to countries, and people who do not have enough to eat? or does it cost too much to redistribute food waste? i would say it probably cost too much money to a shift for long distances that have already been shipped from the point of production you're, you start to get it, whether it's due to the weight, you're moving a lot of pounds and then the whole part of the, you know, the perishable food has to be consumed within

a certain amount of time. it can be frozen in some cases. i think there's one of the key things with, with that leads to food waste is the date they put on packaged food products to say, you know, best buy, use buy, and really understanding what those labels are. so if it says best buy the food is still good to eat after that date, it's just over the years, it may lose some of its flavor for example, but it's still safe, you can eat it. and so i think there'd be more export, you know, or transport of food that has to be pulled off the shelf in the country where they're going by those, those dates of the products where you could stick still available. and we're seeing, we see a lot of that food ending up through, you know, donation change or, or um,

but where he really brought in to the heck up is the weight and the cost of transport. thank you so much, nora, but please pick around. nora will be joining us right after the break. and when we come back, believe it or not, china and india produced more household food waste than any other country. and i bet you thought it was a united states. we'll have more after the break. no no, no. this nonsense. we need some fresh ideas. betters stronger and effective. the

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so that's for and use a symbol when they each of the board couple here and you can assume that somebody's going. so i'm saying yes, i see the best way to take a picture of it. i'll go double paid the day so that i'm not the china and india produced more household food waste than any other country and an estimated 92000000 and 69000000 tons everywhere, respectively. this is not surprising as both of these countries have by far the largest populations. and while food ways has often been thought of to be correlated to wealthy or countries, there are similarities between developed and developing countries. it is estimated that full with per capita is actually the highest in western asia in sub saharan

africa. this is because, as we mentioned earlier, a huge portion of food is wasted before even hits the shelves for retail dream production or distribution. the biggest food ex porters are typically responsible for producing the most food waste and in asia there's a cultural dimension when it comes to food waste. while the chinese people traditionally value frugality and have a long history with them and then shortages, a deeply rooted value is that of expressing hospitality and showing face in doing so, an important standard is the amounts of leftovers and chinese culture when eating out the hosts traditionally order more food rather than less to show hospitality to his guests. the more food left on either the more hospitable and generous the host is seen as if the food is all eaten, then it symbolizes a stingy host and the guests are left hungry because they've cleaned up their plates. it is estimated that 12 percent of food that is served as wasted in chinese

cities and for large banquets, even more severe or more than one 3rd of the food is dumped. in south korea must bonds or finish eating sessions are extremely popular across all social media platforms. these champions of mock phones are crowns. big stomachs, king, which are seen as a symbol of wealth, luck and prosperity. france has now emerged as a leader when it comes to attacking food waste at the legislative level. in 2016 france made it illegal for retailers to throw food away, and instead they must redistribute the food to those in need. the law is punitive with fines of up to $3000.00 euro is part each infraction. china is also tackling its food waste problem with a lot in 2021 that has band competitive eating and binge eating mustang videos. president shifting, paying, also launched a clean plate campaign end up finding food waste, though that has not been as popular with citizens on social media. the south for

you has also managed to reduce food waste. in recent years, when the government made residents for sol pay for recycling, depending on how much food waste they were creating. now let's bring back nor, and goldstein, editor and publisher of bio cycle. so nora, they say that america has an obesity problem. so what's causing that, is it simply more consumption of packaged food, or does it have to do with the over indulgence and just having too many calories from the food available? i would say the obesity challenge is attributed in some ways to, to the food ways challenge. but i really think it has to do with what people who it's, it's, it's actually it's, it's all socio economic classes. it's not just for people,

it's not just rich people so so much of that is just so much of the food that it's convenient to eat is not healthy for you. it's caloric. i also, um i me see that food companies keep introducing the latest and greatest uh, uh, fast food or, or desert or something and. and when you look at the calories and it smooth these different things, you're just, there were consuming so many more calories and they're, they're empty calories. so they're not necessarily added to it a good way to our bodies of baby to a certain extent. you know, if you get the extra large meal at the, at the fast food restaurant with the biggest soda possible, you know, that you, it goes to that bargain mentality. and so we are over consuming,

but i don't think it's really directly related to just wage the wasting of food. now is food waste, a scientific problem or a societal problem where we have normalized discarding food that we don't want to eat? and how do you change a habit of basically an entire society? it's very good question. um, i would say that it's a combination of, of where it is a, it's a social, it's uh, educational combined with innovation and technology. so if we can, and we're seeing this in the whole plan base for arena, where if you can get really high protein in a much smaller carbon footprint for example. um, is that, you know, would, is that a way to go?

so we're the food that we do consume can last longer, have less carbon footprint. but i think at this point in the game, we know all the facts about how much food we're wasting and why and, and where it goes in the harm it does. and what the biggest for known to area is and how do we affect the behavior change around it? what is really weird, where is the point of intervention, where you can really create the behavior change. and i think to a certain extent, those in 2 industries, from, from a part of the table, you know, i just have to somehow be part of this joint effort to use the food we grow and we buy and, and put,

they always put it towards highest and best and use so i think that tends to fall more on social and social fact. yeah. and behavioral psychological factors than actual technology and how kind of inducing food ways help to fight climate change. there's a, a fact that's been around now for a lot of years and nobody's disapproved. it is that if food waste were its own country, it would be the 3rd largest, largest emitter of greenhouse gases after china in united states. so it's well known, it's documented by putting food waste in the landfill. the uh, is the mets greenhouse gases, the trends growing and transport of, of food, you know, to the markets, the image greenhouse gases, so by reducing and be reducing food waste, using the food we got to grow,

it will and, and absolutely reducing the amount we throw away um is, is paramount. it's, you know, when you're looking at a lot of issues related to climate change, taking care of the wage problem and from the one would think that would be one of the easier challenges to solve. but we're still throwing away millions and millions of millions of touch is food was actually causing hunger or are they not necessarily related? yeah, well yes, actually i'll tell you why. we find that when you capture food that still edible and you make a can use it to make meals, we have a huge hunger problem. food security problem in, in the united states. and i not as familiar with the challenge is elsewhere around

the globe. but if we seen when you can rescue food, prepare it and put it in in a lot of times people don't want it as a handout. so you make it in a retail situation where it's that they bought people buy it, it, it, it's, it's preserves dignity and you're getting a healthy meal from food that otherwise would be thrown away. so one of the ways to approach it is you really look at what we call the meal gaps at, you know, let's just say in the, in the city or a j, a regional area and determine where the populations are that are the most viewed in secure and then look into how you can capture and re distribute food as well as put in community gardens and irving farms in neighborhoods that have very

little access to fresh food. and that's another excellent way to use. you start to create this connection to the swell and this independence in neighborhoods that are very disadvantage. and what are the obstacles that prevent food donations to countries that suffer from food scare? so these are their incentives to encourage these donations. so i think where i see that i'm not, that's an area i'm not super familiar with, but i know where we're seeing so much to get wasted. i'm sitting in porch or you know, it tends in, in my mind when i, when i think i, i and it's mostly just from reading, it's more grains and, and essentially you know, the to work. but i'll just say dietary essentials is that that can get hung up in international trade commodities, trading as far as of edible food. i think that's

another, a high protein plant base foods that are a little more show stable. what i would imagine that would be better fit for exporting, then you know, millions of pounds of state that didn't get it. and then that kind of thing, cuz you have to consider that in a lot of countries, they don't have access to refrigeration. like we do so it's kind of taking nutrient rich drawn gradients and preserving them and then putting them, you know, in an export import situation. thank you so much more for joining us today. now there is no winter when it comes to food waste as it comes as an economic loss on the society with 0 benefits to anyone. and this is a serious problem globally. but luckily there's a growing awareness and

a push for change to mitigate food waste. much of food waste originates at the grocery store level with surplus groceries or products are nearing the end of itself life or damaged or the produce that just doesn't look pretty. instead of tossing the surplus, grocery stores can often partner with food, kitchens or other travel organizations to facilitate the redistribution process to those who need it. the other solutions include processing the surplus, grocery to use as part of the feed for poultry farms in france. the grocery stores, inter marsh has found a huge success by offering reduced prices on misfits fruits and vegetables that usually get thrown out and re educating consumers that they are actually perfectly good to consume. i'm christy, i thanks for watching and we'll see you right back here next time on the cost of everything. the

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waiting for you to take a picture of the day so that i'm not the doctor. we withdrew truth from jeff as promised. the key of authorities, as their patrons usually do, through it all into the waste basket of history, were of the guarantees that they will not continue to abandon such agreements. while america reveals a draft agreement on your printer neutrality that she said you have signed. and then scrapped under pressure from its western backers that says russia host an african peacekeeping delegation. de accurate has been teen prank, south african officials reject claims by ukraine, which were quickly echoed in much of the media. yes, there russia targeted. yeah. during their peace mission to the city on friday,

we did not witness any schools. did not. and the, sorry, no, we didn't hear. but did you go to bump shelter today? no, no, i didn't go to the chair st. petersburg international economic forum wraps up in russia's northern capital r t has been providing extensive coverage of the major annual events, the nights economies from around the world. and donald trump waves and not in guilty to miss handling classified documents, accusing the u. s. government of a witch hunt against him. he also claims, as a clear case of double standards questioning why there's not a similar pro in the present and 5 in the

coming to live from the russian capital. this is the weekly on r t international i. rachel loven's here with the top stories of this week. and today, welcome to the program. windermere food, it has revealed the details of a draft agreement on new friends neutrality, which he says key i've agreed to last year in the early stages of the war. but then scrapped under pressure from its western backers. the russian president's comments came law hosting an african peacekeeping delegation in st. petersburg. the did not agree with you quite inside that this deal would be confidential, but we also never disclosed it or commented on it. the draft of this agreement was initialed by representative of the head of the negotiating group from t f. he put his signature there. here it is to

it's called the treaty on permanent neutrality and guarantees for the security of ukraine. it contains 18 articles and there was also an appendix is provisions concern, the armed forces and many other things. everything is written there down to units of military equipment and personnel of the armed forces. here's the document, it is initial, but after we withdrew troops from t f, as promised, the key of authorities as their patrons usually do, through it all into the waste basket of history from where the guarantee is that they will not continue to abandon such agreements. the document revealed by president shows that ukraine agreed to shrink its military to 85000 troops during peace time, as well as confirming its permanent neutrality and its constitution. with russia, the u. s. u. k. china and france listed as guarantors. meanwhile, african leaders have expressed their positions on the conflict with the south african president saying the war must and calling on both sides to de escalate. are

these acts on a boy who has the details? i think it's quite remarkable that the lodging there put in felt the need to bring this agreement to his meeting with the african leaders. in my opinion, it shows the significance. he attaches to these mediation efforts, as well as rushes reputation vickers. i think what he's trying to do is to counter west a narrative that the russian military operation in ukraine came absolutely on per bolt. and the west and media and weston officials liked to present it as a, this cruel attempt to grab your print, entire true. where in fact uh, in the view of the russian president, what russia does is defending its own legitimate security concerns and in ukraine. and he was very straightforward in describing a russian perspective in front of the african leaders. he said that the, uh,

that agreement that he actually demonstrates it to them had this title on permanent neutrality and security guarantees it to ukraine. and that it was essentially the status was a secure registration in europe, off to the end of the cold war. now uh, according to the rest of the president, uh, the kremlin remains open to, oh uh, peace facilitation initiatives. as long as they are down on the principle of fairness and recognition of legitimate security interest on all sides. um, he's saying the african leaders for understanding the context, all of that conflict um not submitting to western pressure. now the african guess on the side side that they also have a practical, uh, national uh, security uh, interest in a, solving the ukranian conflict. it has provoked problems in the field defendants in

food security and unprecedented crisis in its nature to. and he showed you already to support task in removing the obstacles, solve this conflict, thanks to you and all the actors like to t a. m p u m. we menace to pause the grain deal. i am confident that russia, one of the foremost nations of the un and permanence, manville the security council will observe the you and tell to as a continental we're being negatively affected in terms of why economies. the prices of commodities have gone up, particularly grain and fertilizer in the process of fuel have also gone up. and this is a consequence of the war that is ongoing. we would like to see further engagements with regards to the processes that will lead to

the end of this will for the time being uh the uh, so called black c deal, which uh, foresees the uh, uninhibited expert though few, craney and weight and russian. uh, green's and fertilizers to the global markets uh is working on paper, but the russian side of the deal is being actively sabotaged by western countries. and as the russian leader re, to re that russian remains open to any piece. proof of pulse when it comes to ukraine or when it comes to the way international system should be wrong here. uh, stress that uh, every country has a key interest in being solver and in having its territorial integrity protected. but the principles of the un charter should apply equally to old. they should not be cherry pick um that if all countries subscribe to the same standards or,

or the same international laws, rather than cherry picked rules selected by certain group of countries them and only them security and peace could be insured for all the peace land put forward by the south african present, it was given a warm reception from russia's for administer survey lab, rob. this said that it reflected the principles that moscow supports. please don't the for the president from a photos and now and then close. this article makes identified among the well known 12 points of the chinese proposal, those buyers that are close to their position. they include guaranteeing that there are no double standards that all un principles are respected, that there are no unilateral sanctions or attempts to ensure one soul security at the expense of the security of folders. those are the fundamental approaches that we share. so our partners from the african union have shown an understanding of the

2 causes of the crisis created by the west. it is necessary to get out of this situation by addressing these causes who development of concrete actions to eliminate them. these are what has been undermining justifiable security on the european continent for many years. the university of us and yet we went to have a soca, believes that the talks between the african delegation and russia show the confidence geopolitical importance, is rising amid an emerging multi polar world things . now as it goes, why is it increasing? when you look at a, you know, the, the, the cutting, you know, create a global architecture. we have sort of, you know, uni pullout and that's basically benefits the west where the united states of america udall i but could dictate what off it gus would do. and you know, african uh, country short lived. so we faced conflict. we often strength in size between ad i

saw on the often conditions where, you know, they have right increasing roll over breaks in the global trade, global politics. so africa coming off with that initiative and then being independent, all of the difficult things. one is a slap in the face of the usa europe. that's why you're seeing that, the professional, the of, of the whole process and the people that the frustrating bill process don't want this conflict in, by doing africa once in multiple out each and every country in the world has been operations to decide to uh, with the with the us and this small beat or you know, you, we saw when a rush that's when i'm a.