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There is information that we have enough food to feed 1.5 population of the world, but up to 40% of food is just wasted. To say this is a disaster is not enough
by mapcars 7y ago
There is information that we have enough food to feed 1.5 population of the world, but up to 40% of food is just wasted. To say this is a disaster is not enough to describe the situation.
It's not even that we have to change the diet or something, if we could deliver wasted food to whoever needs it that would be enough.
>Roughly 30 to 40% of food in both the developed and developing worlds is lost to waste, though the causes behind this are very different. ... For example, in India, it is estimated that 35 to 40% of fresh produce is lost because neither wholesale nor retail outlets have cold storage
https://medium.com/@jeremyerdman/we-produce-enough-food-to-feed-10-billion-people-so-why-does-hunger-still-exist-8086d2657539 https://medium.com/@jeremyerdman/we-produce-enough-food-to-f...
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/41173771_Food_Security_The_Challenge_of_Feeding_9_Billion_People https://www.researchgate.net/publication/41173771_Food_Secur...
- swarnie_ 7y agoDo you know what the issue was refrigeration is? We've had ice machines for 170 years and wide adoption of home fridges since the 1930's It cant be a technology issue...
- mapcars 7y agoRefrigeration is an example cause in developing countries, the paper above says that in developed countries the low price of food itself causes such irresponsible actions.
- Shivetya 7y agohunger and poverty are nearly always the result of government. the one percent of this world have always been those who are in government, the super rich are not even fully immune to their effect except in the worst government types. to correct the issue requires agreement on a world stage where governments which actively harm their people are removed yet even with the most glaring examples we have supposedly advanced countries opposing intervention; the two best examples are the support that North Korea and Venezuela get.
- everdrive 7y agoYou need a reliable power grid, money to pay for the grid, and money to pay for the refrigerator. It's not a given!
- azernik 7y agoIn food logistics this challenge is called the "cold chain" - you need to build a complete supply chain, from harvesting to production to retail to consumer, with temperature control at every point in the way. It takes quite a lot of capital to create, and good infrastructure to maintain.
- decasteve 7y agoAlso, how much arable land goes unused? How much of it gets developed for other uses (housing, etc.)?
- alltakendamned 7y agoAnd how much forested land is turned into mediocre arable land and gets depleted in record time ?
- Sharlin 7y agoIn developed countries, and increasingly in developing countries, vast tracts of farmland are wasted on an extremely inefficient form of food production: passing the energy through an extra trophic level. Furthermore, in developing countries, a large fraction of arable land is used to grow exportable luxury products like tobacco, chocolate, and coffee. But hunger, globally, is not caused by insufficient production. It is almost entirely a problem with distribution.
- alltakendamned 7y agoStrategies for reducing food waste might be a very interesting research area. I have no idea though what is happening in that space.