Thursday, January 10, 2013

How much water is needed to produce food and how much do we waste?

Guardian: As much as 2bn tonnes of food are wasted every year - equivalent to 50% of all food produced - according to a report published today by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IME) The IME estimate that 30-50% (1.2-2bn tonnes) of all food produced is "lost before reaching a human stomach". Consumer affairs correspondent Rebecca Smithers writes today: The UK's Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IME) blames the "staggering" new figures in its analysis on unnecessarily strict sell-by dates,...

URL: http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2013/jan/10/how-much-water-food-production-waste
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