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Your editorial (Hunger is coming. The temperature rises and rivers dry up. How can we feed the world?, 2 March) asks a crucial question. Policymakers tell us 70% more food must be produced by 2050 to feed the growing world population. Not so. We produce enough food to feed twice the current world population. But globally we waste 60% of it: through post-harvest losses, through its being thrown out by consumers and by the use of cereals to feed animals. For every 100 calories fed to animals in the form of human-edible crops, we receive 10 calories or less in the form of meat.
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Your editorial (Hunger is coming. The temperature rises and rivers dry up. How can we feed the world?, 2 March) asks a crucial question. Policymakers tell us 70% more food must be produced by 2050 to feed the growing world population. Not so. We produce enough food to feed twice the current world population. But globally we waste 60% of it: through post-harvest losses, through its being thrown out by consumers and by the use of cereals to feed animals. For every 100 calories fed to animals in the form of human-edible crops, we receive 10 calories or less in the form of meat.