Lack of food diversity, a leading cause of death – UN - Punch Newspapers

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Ahead of the UN Food Systems Summit due in September, the Programme Manager of the United Nations Environment Programme, James Lomax, has said low dietary diversity in food globally has become a ‘primary driver of death’.

In an interview published on the UNEP website, he said, “The world already produces enough food to feed everyone on the planet. But, as a recent UNEP report found, over 17 per cent of food is wasted. Food waste accounts for up to 10 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions.

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