Food wastage also affects government’s decisions and policies to address the problems that come with. As mentioned in the previous section on social impacts of food wastage, social inequality can be exacerbated due to the interconnectedness between nations, and how the actions of richer, developed nations will inadvertently affect the poorer, less developed ones.

For example, the purchase of food by one person leaves less food for others to buy. To expand it to a more global scale, the purchase of more food by richer countries leaves less food for the people in poorer country, which may cause deaths due to starvation. Despite being aware of this relationship, governments of poor countries often allow this exploitation to occur as they perceive that the money that can be earned by supplying food crops to richer countries will cover social costs. Now with food wastage, the problem is a lot more complicated than it seems, as the increase food supplied by poorer countries to the rich is at the expense of the lives of people in those countries. Hence, food wastage is a global problem, and governments from around the world will need to work together and modify both their own policies and international regulations to reduce this unfair discrepancy.