Waste: Uncovering the Global Food Scandal Stuart TristramPaperback
Waste: Uncovering the Global Food Scandal Stuart TristramPaperback With shortages, volatile prices and nearly one billion people hungry, the world has a food problem--or thinks it does. Forests are…
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Waste: Uncovering the Global Food Scandal Stuart TristramPaperback
With shortages, volatile prices and nearly one billion people hungry, the world has a food problem--or thinks it does. Forests are destroyed and nearly one tenth of the West's greenhouse gas emissions are released growing food that will never be eaten. Farmers, manufacturers, supermarkets and consumers in North America and Europe discard up to half of their food--enough to feed all the world's hungry at least three times over.
Waste traces the problem around the globe from the top to the bottom of the food production chain. While affluent nations throw away food through neglect, in the developing world crops rot because farmers lack the means to process, store and transport them to market.But there could be surprisingly painless remedies for what has become one of the world's most pressing environmental and social problems. Stuart's journey takes him from the