Sort: Noodles 'Kritharaki' / Place of production: Athens, Greece / Production method: Factory production / Time of production: All- season / Transporting distance: 1.702 km / Means of transportation: Truck / Carbon footprint (Transport) per kg: 1,50 kg / Water requirement (total) per kg: unknown Price: 5,98 € / kg
Sort: Tomatoes 'Cuore di Bue' / Place of production: Albenga, Italy Cultivation method: Foil green house / Time of harvest: All- season Transporting distance: 1.035 km / Means of transportation: Truck / Carbon footprint (total) per kg: 0,31 kg / Water requirement (total) per kg: 215 l Price: 0,89 € / kg
Sort: Pineapple 'Nana' / Place of production: Guayaquil, Ecuador Cultivation method: Outdoor plantation / Time of harvest: All- season / Transporting distance: 10.666 km (linear distance) / Means of transportation: Aircraft, truck / Carbon footprint (total) per kg: 11,94 kg / Water requirement (total) per kg: 360 l / Price: 2,10 € / kg
Sort: Choco Duo / Place of production: Polch, Germany / Production method: Factory production / Time of production: All- season / Transporting distance: 868 km / Means of transportation: Truck / Carbon footprint (transport) per kg: 1,07 kg / Water requirement (total) per kg: unknown Price: 5,65 € / kg
Sort: Pink Cham Cham / Place of production: Kolkata, India / Production method: Factory production / Time of production: All- season / Transporting distance: 6.851 km / Means of transportation: Aircraft, truck / Carbon footprint (total) per kg: 8,26 kg / Water requirement (total) per kg: 28 l / Price: 11 € / kg
Sort: Paradise creme 'Strawberry' / Place of production: Bielefeld, Germany Cultivation method: Factory production / Time of harvest: All- season Transporting distance: 940 km / Means of transportation: Truck / Carbon footprint (total) per kg: 8,15 kg / Water requirement (total) per kg: unknown Price: 24,14 € / kg
Sort: Canned whipped cream / Place of production: Balmazujvaros, Hajdu-Bihar, Hungary / Production method: Factory production / Time of production: All-season / Transporting distance: 460 km / Means of transportation: Truck Carbon footprint (total) per kg: 8,07 kg / Water requirement (total) per kg: unknown / Price: 0,99 € / kg
Sort: Ice Cream, various kinds / Place of production: Vienna, Austria, ingredients from all over the world / Production method: Factory production / Time of production: All- season / Transporting distance: from 100 km (Nuts) to 8.500 km (Bananas) / Means of transportation: Aircraft, ship, truck Carbon footprint (total) per kg: unknown / Water requirement (total) per kg: unknown Price: 10,50 € / kg
Sort: Strawberries 'Elsanta' / Place of production: San Giovanni Lupatoto, Verona, Italy / Cultivation method: Foil green house / Time of harvest: June - October / Transporting distance: 741 km / Means of transportation: Truck Carbon footprint (total) per kg: 0,35 kg / Water requirement (total) per kg: 348 l / Price: 7,96 € / kg
Sort: Blackberries / Place of production: Tuxpan, Jalisco, Mexico / Cultivation method: Outdoor plantation / Time of harvest: October - June / Transporting distance: 9.900 km / Means of transportation: Aircraft, truck / Carbon footprint (total) per kg: 11,97 kg / Water requirement (total) per kg: 40 l Price: 15,92 € / kg
Sort: Chicken / Place of production: Behamberg, Austria / Production method: Farm / Time of production: All- season / Transporting distance: 183 km / Means of transportation: Truck / Carbon footprint (total) per kg: 3,54 kg Water requirement (total) per kg: 1551 l / Price: 3,69 € / kg
Sort: Potato Smiles Potato dough patties / Place of production: Strzelin, Poland / Production method: Factory production / Time of production: All- season / Transporting distance: 399 km / Means of transportation: Refridgerated truck / Carbon footprint (transport) per kg: 5,79 kg / Water requirement (total) per kg: unknown / Price: 3,30 € / kg

According to a UN study, one third of the world’s food goes to waste – the largest part thereof in the industrialized nations of the global north. Equally, 925 million people around the world are threatened by starvation. The series “One Third” describes the connection between individual wastage of food and globalized food production. Rotting food, arranged into elaborate still lifes, portrays an abstract picture of the wastage of food whilst the accompanying texts take a more in depth look at the roots of this issue. “One Third” goes past the sell by date in order to document the full dimensions of the global food waste. 

Klaus Pichler born 1977, lives and works in Vienna, Austria