Spain Leads Child Poverty in the EU While Households Waste More than a Ton of Food

El Pais

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Spain maintains one of the most difficult social paradoxes to explain in Europe: while it leads the EU's rate of child poverty, more than 1,120 million kilos of food are wasted in households a year. Between both extremes - lack and excess - much of the debate that has centered the annual Congress of the Spanish Federation of Food Banks (FESBAL), held this Thursday in Castellón, moves.