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Index score of food sustainability indicators worldwide in 2018, by region*

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November 2018

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Worldwide

Survey time period

2018

Supplementary notes

* Indicators include:
Food loss: food loss, policy response to food loss, causes of distribution-level loss.

End-user waste: food waste at end-user level, policy response to food waste.

Water: environmental impact of agriculture on water, sustainability of water withdrawal, water scarcity, water management, trade impact, sustainability of fisheries.

Land: environmental impact of agriculture on land, land use, impact on land of animal feed and biofuels, land ownership, agricultural subsidies, animal welfare policies, diversification of agricultural system, environmental biodiversity, agro-economic indicators, productivity, land-users, financial access and protections for land-users.

Air: environmental impact of agriculture on the atmosphere, climate change mitigation, opportunities for investing in sustainable agriculture.

Life quality: prevalence of malnourishment, micronutrient deficiency, enabling factors.

Life expectancy: health life expectancy, prevalence of over-nourishment, impact on health, physical activity.

Dietary patterns: diet composition, number of people per fast food restaurant, economic determinant of dietary patterns, policy response to dietary patterns.

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This statistic shows the food sustainability index scores for several indicators in 2018, broken down by global region. At this time, the index for food loss was highest in North America at ****.

"The Food Loss and Waste score is a weighted average of the indicators in the policies to respond to food loss and waste category. A higher score means that a country is on the right path to addressing food loss and waste."