Efforts to reduce the billions of tonnes lost could improve global food security -- ensuring everyone has access to a safe, affordable, nutritious diet -- and help prevent damage to the environment, the team says. Scientists at the University of Edinburgh examined ten key stages in the global food system -- including food consumption and the growing and harvesting of crops -- to quantify the extent of losses. Increased demand for some foods, particularly meat and dairy products, would decrease the efficiency of the food system and could make it difficult to feed the world's expanding population in sustainable ways, researchers say.
The research was funded through a Global Food Security Program supported by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, Economic and Social Research Council, Natural Environment Research Council and the Scottish Government. Professor Dominic Moran, of the University of York, who was involved in the study, said: "This study highlights that food security has production and consumption dimensions that need to be considered when designing sustainable food systems.
Food is essential to a humans survival. Everyday at restaurants and at stores food that doesn't get sold, it gets thrown away. This food that is being thrown away is either bruised or not used anymore and stores find no use for it so they end disposing it. We need to use the disposed food as compost and grow new food with it. With the new food we can donate the food being disposed and it give it to people can afford food.
The research was funded through a Global Food Security Program supported by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, Economic and Social Research Council, Natural Environment Research Council and the Scottish Government. Professor Dominic Moran, of the University of York, who was involved in the study, said: "This study highlights that food security has production and consumption dimensions that need to be considered when designing sustainable food systems.
Food is essential to a humans survival. Everyday at restaurants and at stores food that doesn't get sold, it gets thrown away. This food that is being thrown away is either bruised or not used anymore and stores find no use for it so they end disposing it. We need to use the disposed food as compost and grow new food with it. With the new food we can donate the food being disposed and it give it to people can afford food.