An estimated one-fifth of the food produced in India, including one-tenth of grain reserves, is wasted.
The trouble is that shoppers seem happy to pay less for food produced to lower standards elsewhere.
Making sure that we only eat food produced locally, none of this buying stuff on the international markets.
The machines will be put to work improving rural roads to ensure food produced for sale gets to market quicker.
An accurate picture of soil pollution could endanger the livelihoods of farmers by encouraging consumer boycotts of food produced in contaminated areas.
Food and Agriculture Organization, there is enough food produced to provide everyone in the world with 2, 720 kilocalories per person per day.
While many millions go without food, one-third of the food produced in the world (which amounts to 1.3 billion tons per year) becomes landfill.
This is a terrible, greedy, vicious cycle, with no regard to the health of the food produced, or the land being used to produce it.
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To leverage its power, Walmart will ask its suppliers to quantify the amount of water, energy, fertilizer, and the pesticides they use, per unit of food produced.
Galavolden Gard is part of an association of local businesses that co-operate to ensure consistent pricing and to guarantee that food produced in Roros does not stray too far outside the region.
The WFP's ability to mitigate the impact of rising food prices has also been hampered by a significant decrease in the past five years of supplies of "in-kind food aid" - food produced abroad and delivered to vulnerable people in emergencies.
There is a lot of discussion these days about food waste. 30 to 40 percent of all food produced in the world is wasted, we hear, and the food thrown away in the U.S. is enough to fill the Rose Bowl with food every day.
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"This is a really important step toward food safety standards that would prevent contamination whether it is produced in a food factory or being produced on a farm, " said Chris Waldrop, director of the Food Policy Institute at the Consumer Federation of America.
All the food is produced locally, with the exception of salt and vegetable oil.
It recommends, for example, better labelling of eggs, so people know how their food is produced.
The same amount of food was produced in all their scenarios, but land sharing harmed wildlife more.
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Beyond this, every batch of synthetic food color produced has to be FDA certified through further testing before being used.
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Getting the kosher seal is a rigorous experience that requires OK's 300-odd part-time rabbis to travel around inspecting plants where food is produced.
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And just as the hacking community seeks to understand how a technology works, people are increasingly looking to know who and how their food is produced.
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The British-based independent Institution of Mechanical Engineers said about 4.4 billion tons of food is produced annually and roughly half of it is never eaten.
Not all long-distance transported food is necessarily bad and not all locally produced food is necessarily good.
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But Biosensors could also be used for testing water quality and food safety (the toxins produced by food-spoiling bacteria would show up easily).
Instead of those attitudes and habits, culinary mindfulness builds a more gratifying, pleasurable and therefore psychologically sustainable relationship with food, a relationship well-adapted to the possibilities presented by seasonal, sustainably-produced food.
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Airplane food is incredibly high in sodium because sodium is an easy way to add flavor to otherwise bland mass produced food.
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Most of the schools in the district lack kitchens, so they must buy pre-produced food from off-site.
Now, he is considering cutting back on his monthly imports and buying more locally produced food products.
Various actions have been proposed to how food and drink produced in the Highlands can be better promoted.
Consider locavorism the idea that it's irresponsible to eat food that was produced more than a short distance from where it's eaten.
One is literal: the price of organically produced food is higher than that from more intensive farms, and is likely to remain so.
The shop, next to the Live and Let Live pub, is run and staffed by about 40 volunteers and sells locally-produced food and drink.
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