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Throwing our food away: Up to 50% of the food produced worldwide is wasted

2013-01-11 00:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Mongabay: A new report titled Global food, waste not, want not published by the Institute of Mechanical Engineers has found that 30 to 50 percent of all food produced in the world never reaches a stomach. The authors of the study warn that these figures are quite conservative. The large amounts of land, energy, fertilizers and water that are wasted in the food production have not been accounted for. In developing countries this waste is mostly due to inefficient harvesting methods, poor storage and transportation...

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