A quarter of all food calories grown for human consumption is being lost or wasted, either purposefully or otherwise, according to new estimates.
With high food prices now widely seen as a new normal even as food demand across the globe continues to rapidly expand, advocates and development experts here are calling for concerted national and international action in a way that has not yet been seen.
“The world faced an analogous failure of efficiency in the 1970s with energy,” states a new working paper produced jointly by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the World Resources Institute (WRI), an environment and development advocacy group based here.
See full Article: http://www.ipsnews.net/2013/06/international-community-urged-to-declare-war-on-food-waste/
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