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Waste: Uncovering the Global Food Scandal

by Tristram Stuart - £12.99  Penguin Books Ltd (2009)
paperback    ISBN 13: 9780141036342 | ISBN 10: 0141036346

The world has a 'food problem' - rapidly rising prices, shortages, 100 million people starving, environmental depredation - or it thinks it does. This book shows that farmers, manufacturers, supermarkets and consumers in North America and Europe discard between 30 and 50 per cent of their fresh produce - enough to feed the starving in the world six times over. Additionally, while affluent nations throw away food through neglect, up to 40 per cent of some crops in the developing world are wasted because farmers lack the basic infrastructure to process and store them before they rot.
 
Waste is both a personal journey over the world's food waste mountain and an objective investigation of this environmental and social problem. During his travels from Yorkshire to western China, Pakistan to Japan, Tristram Stuart encounters grotesque examples of profligacy, but also inspiring and innovative solutions. Terrible though it may seem, the global food waste problem is also a great opportunity - tackling it is easy. Unlike giving up air travel for the sake of the planet, avoiding food waste can be achieved without much sacrifice. Waste is essential reading for anyone who seeks to remedy the current global food crisis and how we live now.

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In booklists: Food Industry and the Politics of Food, Recycling and Waste, Poverty & Inequality Worldwide,
In categories: Anti-Capitalism & Global Inequality, Environment & Animal Rights,

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