Saturday, December 15, 2012

Halve Food Waste, Feed an Additional Billion

Halving Food Losses Would Feed An Additional Billion People, Finnish Study Finds.  Science Daily.  October 10, 2012.

A quarter of the amount of calories in produced food is lost or wasted during production.   If waste were stemmed 8 billion people could be fed with the currently used resources.  The present estimated population is 7 billion.







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