Wesley Stevenson
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1,470 appearances
54 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2010
last heard May 2015
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But agricultural workers, if you look at the figures, make up just over 20% of the population.
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No, and using the figures from Professor Jha's findings and population figures from the UN, you can show that while the suicide rate in India is high, it's 15 for every 100,000 people, the suicide rate amongst agricultural workers is around 7 per 100,000.
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And while the plight of these farmers is tragic, Professor Jha says the overemphasis on agricultural suicides means another vital group isn't being addressed.
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No.
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The figure comes from an unlikely source, the Institute of Mechanical Engineers in the UK.
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Their report is a complete blizzard of numbers on many different aspects of food waste at different stages of the food processing chain, and the figures are from a variety of sources that use a variety of different methods to reach their conclusions.
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But if you look at the report, there are actually two figures for overall global food waste.
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One is up to 50%, so not 50%, up to 50%, and the other is 30%.
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No, the report contains no new figures or calculations.
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They're all picked from other sources with little regard for how they were worked out.
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For example, the claim we waste up to 50% of the food we produce comes from a UN report published in 2008.
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But even they, the UN, took this figure from a book published in 2000, which uses UN data from the 1990s.
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No, it's not very new at all.
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And the way it was calculated is also in dispute.
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Twan Tinnemans is from Wageningen University in the Netherlands and is project director of Fusions, which is a pan-European project to tackle food waste.
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Well, yes, that figure, which is the other one quoted by the UK's Institute for Mechanical Engineers, that's more recent and comes from a UN study from 2011.
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Now, this study also draws on data collected by many groups and governments from around the world.
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And when I spoke to one of the authors about its accuracy, he told me that primary data are very scarce.
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and that most summaries build on few real data points and many assumptions and extrapolations have to be made.
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And he also said that waste is defined in different ways, which means they can't give a quantified margin of error for the 30% figure.
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