We know the world’s natural resources are limited, but we’re using more water, mining more minerals and cutting down more forests than ever before.
We’re also throwing more stuff away – a lot more. In 1900 the world generated 300,000 tons of rubbish a day. Fast forward 100 years to 2000, and that had shot up to 3 million tons per day. And what’s really crazy is that while 1 in 9 of us are hungry, every year a third of the food we produce is lost or wasted. So we not only need to consume less, we need to make sure it goes further.
If we hit this goal, it could change the lives of millions of people living today, but the real impact will be felt by future generations. Instead of severe water shortages, pollution and ravaged earth, we could leave them a sustainable planet that provides everything they need.
Facts and figures
30% to 40%
30% to 40% of the foods produced in Nigeria are ultimately wasted (Minister of Agriculture, 2017)
1.9 million
Over 1.9 million naira is loss due to food wastage yearly (Nigeria Data Summary, 2017).
3 in 10
57 million Nigerians don’t have clean water. That’s 3 in every 10 people (WaterAid, 2018).
11% & 25%
Women’s nutrition is also of concern in Nigeria, facing the double burden of malnutrition: prevalence of under-nutrition is 11 percent and prevalence of overweight/obesity is 25 percent (National Population Commission and ICF International 2014).
