EU: Sustainable Food A Recipe for Food Security and Environmental Protection? – free report

The world is facing food security and nutrition challenges on an unprecedented scale. One in eight of the world’s population is undernourished an even higher number are classified as overweight. Recent food price rises have pushed millions of the poorest people on the planet into famine.
In this report, the researchers look at how ‘sustainable food’ production can offer new possibilities to meet the food security and nutritional challenges facing the global community. The ‘packaging paradox’ is that, in developing countries, food waste at production stage could be reduced by availability of packaging, whereas in the UK, over quarter of food wastes is still in its original packaging.
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