Nobody can have missed it. The hot topic of the past couple of months has been the so-called global food crisis. If you believe the media, the conventional ones as well as the social media, we are facing food shortages. For those who follow my articles, it will be no surprise that I am inclined to challenge such statements. When 40% of all the food produced is wasted and lost, it is not possible to talk about food shortages. As I explained in my earlier article in this series "Hunger is about more than just food production", there is plenty of potential to increase food availability. Currently, and with this extremely sloppy 40% food waste, world agriculture feeds quite reasonably six billion people. Unfortunately, this is not the case for one billion hungry people. By eliminating the waste, we could supply enough food to feed nine billion people. Not in 2050, but today already! That is not ideology or political agenda. It is simple math. Interestingly enough, the amount of the 40% food waste corresponds with the 70% more food the FAO says we should produce to feed nine billion. The more food we will save, the less we will need to push production up.
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