To avoid duplication and wastage, better coordination and cooperation were needed at headquarters and in the field.

More precise information on the post vacancy rate in different grades and the natural staff wastage rate would be needed.

Or that He may not call them to account by a process of slow wastage for thy Lord is indeed full of kindness and mercy.

Or that He may not call them to account by a process of slow wastage for thy Lord is indeed full of kindness and mercy.

In paragraph 193, the Board recommended that UNICEF improve the quality of its supply and distribution planning in emergencies in the context of avoiding wastage.

Businesses and households alike should monitor where and how they waste food and take corrective steps, because prevention of wastage is even more important than recycling or composting.

In an era of austerity, it is difficult to understand how such a massive hemorrhage of resources could be neglected. In fact, in some places, the volume of food wastage is rising.

But these simple steps are easy enough to grasp and within reach for everyone. The world confronts many seemingly intractable problems food wastage is one issue that we all can do something about now.

The figure is all the more unfathomable, given that, alongside this massive wastage and loss, 840 million people experience chronic hunger on a daily basis. Many millions more suffer from silent hunger malnutrition and micronutrient deficiencies.

In accordance with the guidelines established by the General Assembly, the Special Committee was able during the year to reduce the number of its formal meetings and to minimize the wastage resulting from cancellation of scheduled meetings.

(e) Europe and the NIS In this region, emphasis will be placed on industrial energy efficiency, since energy wastage is a particularly serious problem, with its roots in the highly subsidized energy prices of the planned economy era.

The current GDP metric ignores the negative externalities of fossil fuel based private activities, leading to overwhelming pollution and gross wastage of non renewable natural resources. Without full cost accounting, some of the worst activities will continue to be immensely profitable.

OTTAWA One quarter of all the food in the world is lost each year, owing to inefficient harvesting, inadequate storage, and wastage in the kitchen. Halve that waste, and the world could feed an extra billion people and make hunger yesterday s problem.

A government cannot liquidate its deficit if the source of its revenues, the national income, is diminishing. It is deficit reduction, not debt, that is profligate, because it implies wastage of available human and physical capital, quite apart from the resulting misery.

For the more economically minded, here is another number food wastage and loss, expressed in producer prices, costs roughly 750 billion per year. If we were to consider retail prices and the wider impacts on the environment, including climate change, the figure would be much higher.

For starters, food loss and wastage needs to be seen as a cross cutting policy issue, rather than a lifestyle choice to be left in the hands of individual consumers and their consciences. The world needs to wake up to the need for policies that address all stages of the food chain, from production to consumption.