Cutting Food Losses in Half Would Feed an Additional Billion People

submitted by Samuel Bendett

Homeland Security News Wire - October 11, 2012

More efficient use of the food production chain and a decrease in the amount of food losses will dramatically help maintaining the planet’s natural resources and improve people’s lives; researchers have proved a valid estimation, for the first time, for how many people could be fed with reducing food losses

Researchers in Aalto University have proved a valid estimation, for the first time, for how many people could be fed with reducing food losses.

An Aalto University release reports that the world’s population is an estimated seven billion people. An additional one billion can be fed from our current resources, if the food losses could be halved. This can be achieved if the lowest loss percentage achieved in any region could be reached globally.

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Aalto University - Halving the food losses would feed an additional billion people
http://www.aalto.fi/en/current/news/view/2012-10-10-004/

Lost food, wasted resources: Global food supply chain losses and their impacts on freshwater, cropland, and fertiliser use
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969712011862