Isn't it a crazy world and economic system where food is wasted while human beings starve in other areas?
The UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has compiled a study Food Wastage Footprint: Impacts on Natural Resources which shows that the waste of some 1.3 billion tonnes of food every year harms the very natural resources we rely on to feed ourselves. The direct economic costs are some $750 billion annually!
Do we have the courage to drop our causes and our concepts to address this scandal?
Food security is one of the chapters in The Agri Handbook, while there is a whole section covering natural resources. The opening chapter is Biodiversity and ecosystems services.
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