A plan for reducing food loss and wastage

“Figuring out how the world can adequately and nutritiously feed nearly 10 billion people by the year 2050 in a manner that advances human wellbeing, while also reducing the food system’s impact on the environment, particularly on climate change, is one of the grand challenges of this half-century.

Previous studies have found that addressing this challenge will entail closing the gap between the food needed by 2050 and that available today, while simultaneously reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from business-as-usual agriculture and related land-use change by 2050 in order to meet the Paris Agreement on climate change.

One critical intervention for achieving both is to reduce the current