Have you ever wondered how much food is produced every year in the world? 4’000’000’000 tons.
How much of this food is wasted? 1’300’000’000, 30%; ⅓ of the world’s food produced goes in the trash or to the dump.
Through a simple mathematical equation, we may state undoubtedly that the 9’000’000’000 persons will populate the earth in 2050, as per FAO’s forecast, might already be fed with actual resources, with any kind of food revolution.
Many factors contribute to this huge situation: a hustling life that drives to buy groceries once a week with food rotting in the cooler or in the pantry, bad education about the importance of food, the wish to experiment new tastes and dishes, long supply chains in the food retail industry, overproduction or oversupply due to wrong forecasts or policies, and so on.
By Antonio Iannone