Álvaro Areta, representative of the Coordinator of Farmers and Livestock Organizations (COAG), already told us in the conference cycle dedicated to food use, that 28% of agricultural land is used to produce food that is lost.

According to Álvaro Areta “The main causes that generate waste in the primary sector are economic or commercial in nature. Globalized food markets are marked by a high speculative nature, with large trade flows and long marketing chains, great price volatility, and are guilty of setting up and bursting enormous bubbles. "Such a food model causes serious harm to society as a whole, and to consumers in particular, and generates serious problems of food waste in the chain."

On the other hand, the general director of the Food Industry, Jose Miguel Herrero, at the conference “The environmental impact of food waste”, organized by AECOC, highlighted the importance of reducing food waste to guarantee the sustainability of the chain. food. When wasting food, not only food is lost, but also the resources used to obtain it, the work of producers and the rest of the operators in the food supply chain, the research effort and the enthusiasm of those who put the food in our lives. table.