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Brazil
Environmental
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Food waste
Food waste also leaves a footprint on the environment amounting to nearly $700bn in environmental costs. If food waste was a country, it would be the third-largest producer of carbon dioxide in the world. [Elia Ghorbiah/Al Jazeera]
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Of all the fruits and vegetables that go to waste in Brazil, around 50 percent is lost while being transported and handled.
Food Security
In Brazil, the biggest problem of food donation is never food availability; it is the lack of access to food. Large retailers are often not willing to donate their excess food to NGOs because of a lack of trust. At the same time, NGOs also lack a mature food collection mechanism that can effectively drive food donations.
In Brazil, approximately 52 million people are food insecure
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Social
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Health
The share of adult people who were considered obese in Brazil - according to the body mass index (BMI) computed by the source with the weight and height of the respondents - amounted to 19.5 percent in 2019. This represents an increase in comparison to 2012, when the percentage of respondents who were considered obese reached around 17.4 percent.
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Health care
Density of medical doctors per 10,000 people 21.6
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Economic
Unemployment rate
Brazil’s unemployment rate decreased to 13.2 percent in the three months ending in August of 2021,
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