While 23.4 million Mexicans face food insecurity, 13.4 million tons of perfectly good food head to landfills each year; explore how leaders tackle food waste in Mexico.
Millions of Mexicans struggle to secure their next meal even as the nation discards 13.4 million tons of food each year, according to the United Nations Environment Programme Food Waste Index 2024. That figure places Mexico just behind the United States as North America’s second-largest food-wasting nation. This gap between need and excess persists because economic uncertainty, supply-chain snags, and limited redistribution channels push both . . .
