Half of the food produced all over the world is wasted without being eaten

According to the summary presented by the Stockholm International Water Association (SIWI), the UN Food and Agriculture Organization and the International Water Management Laboratory, the current food crisis is abandoned without wasting half of the food produced worldwide There seems to be cause for being existence.

It also points out that over 850 million people are suffering from starvation, there are over 1.2 billion people who are obese due to too much overeating.

The actual state of food abandoned in waste to be shaky is as follows.
Half of All Food Produced Worldwide is Wasted

DEVELOPMENT: Wasted Food Is Also Wasted Water

For example, in the case of the United States, 30% of food, 48.3 billion dollars, is abandoned without being eaten, which is equivalent to about 5.1 trillion yen when converted to Japanese yen.

This seems to be equivalent to dropping 40 trillion liters of water needed to fill a household of 500 million people. Because we need a lot of water to produce food. It means that wasting food is wasteful of water as well.

In addition, these discarded foods decompose to produce methane gas when landfilled, and that methane can affect climate twice as much as carbon dioxide.

According to Professor Jean Lundquist of the Stockholm International Water Association, it is said that reducing these wastes by 50% is a feasible level.

According to Colin Charters, director of the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), "Within the next 40 years there is not enough water to meet the population on Earth, at that time the current food crisis will be a permanent crisis"That's right.

Furthermore, due to these circumstances, food prices are expected to rise further, and research fellows at the International Food Policy Research InstituteDr. Mark · CohenI have made the following forecasts.

Also, with the surge in food prices in the past, if the harvest season came two or three times, supply caught up and nature and prices fell. But I can not expect that anymore. Because demand for food, feed, and fuel gathers in one crop and is in talks. There is no solution unless biofuel research on fibrils utilizing grass and wood progresses. Until then, there may be no soaring rise, but prices will not go down.

Before this,Food self-sufficiency rateIn Japan, which is said to be low, it may be time for food to be imported no matter how much money you pay ... ....