ENVIRON 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Food Security, Eutrophication
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Environ 201 lecture 25 food waste. The problem of waste: about 40% of all food produced in the us is wasted, more than 160 billion pounds of food a year, facts of food insecurity, number of people chronically undernourished: ~780 million people in. 2014-2016 (about 1 in 10: number of americans without food security: ~42 million americans (about. 1 in 9 people: amount of food we produce: in 2010, us produced about 4,000 calories per person, per day, the average american only needs 2,000 cal/day. If 25% of food currently wasted could be saved, it would feed 870 million people. In developing countries ~40% of loss occurs post-harvest and in processing. It"s not the scarcity of natural resources that limits human population growth, but the ability of the earth to absorb the waste we create: paraphrased from pacheco et al. 2016: this comment was made about all waste, not just food waste.
