Meet The Most Food Sustainable Countries: France Leads while US, UK stumble

December 20, 2018December 20, 2018 I am Renew 0 Comments Agriculture, China, FAO, Food Sustainability Index, France, UK, UN, US

And Voila! The French have done it, they are the leaders in Food Sustainability Index. The index which ranked the countries in terms of their average food wastage found the French etiquettes have saved food and garnered appreciation all over the world.

Be it France’s aggressive measures to tackle food wastage or promotion of healthy lifestyle or its push to adopt eco-farming techniques to make wine and bread, or all of these, they have landed France into the top Rank of being the Most Food Sustainable country in the world. A well-known love and respect for food and its origins would have helped too.

“France has been in the vanguard of policies and measures to reduce such losses,” said Martin Koehring, the index’s author.

The Netherlands, Canada, Finland and Japan are the top Five on the board with a surprise from African Nation Rwanda, which scored the highest rank among the low-income countries in an index compiled by the Economist Intelligence Unit and the Barilla Centre for Food & Nutrition Foundation.

Other Key Highlights of Food Sustainability Index 2018:

-The 3 top performers in the sustainable agriculture pillar are Austria, Denmark and Israel.

-The 3 top performer in the nutritional challenges pillar are Japan, South Korea and Denmark.

-France, Argentina and Luxembourg are top 3 in curbing food loss and waste, worldwide.

-Ironically China, The US and The UK failed to make its entry into the top 20 of the 67 nation Food Sustainability Index that graded on the Food Waste, Sustainable Agriculture and health and Nutrition.