Review: A can-do book on reducing food waste
07-18-2009
Rigorously researched, uplifting book on food waste offers list of difficult but possible improvements from farmers through food producers, supermarkets and restaurants to consumers and governments. Solutions could aid those facing famine, help Britain meet international targets on climate change. And: Changing ways food is produced, handled and disposed of can feed world's rising population, help environment, says UN study (click 'See also').
Read the story at The Telegraph (Great Britain)
Tags: Achim Steiner, agricultural subsidies, biofuels, climate change, Co-op, drought, FAO, FareShare, Food and Agriculture Organization, food crisis, food production, food waste, food waste composting, Foot and Mouth disease, freegan, green economy, green revolution, high oil prices, Islands of Hope, Japan, Korea, low grain stocks, Morrison's, Sainsbury's, subsidies, Taiwan, Tesco, The Environmental Food crises: Environment's role in averting future food crises, Tristam Stuart, UN, United Nations Environment Program, War on Waste, Waste: Uncovering the Global Food Scandal, William Skidelsky
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