I don't disagree with anything you say in general or in principle... but if you actually bothered to even skim the report, you'd see that almost half of it is a

I don't disagree with anything you say in general or in principle... but if you actually bothered to even skim the report, you'd see that almost half of it is about data collection: existing academic research, best practices, challenges, common mistakes, the different levels of granularity / accuracy achievable depending on how much each country is willing to invest in measuring food waste, how to sample, categorization of countries depending on the quality of the data, imputation for countries that have no data available at all, and so on. Furthermore, the UN is coordinating the effort but it's up to individual countries to produce the actual statistics, so no, I suspect with $500 million/year they can do a lot of cajoling but they can't do the actual data collection because that's not their remit. You've got to admit there's more than a little irony in claiming that this is one of the most misleading reports you've ever seen, when it turns out you've not actually seen it.