Africa: Waste Not, Want Not, Incentivise Not - What to Do About Food Waste? (Page 1 of 2)

This latest report on food waste is pretty shocking when you think of the environmental impact in terms of wasted water, soil and methane from rotting, not to mention the economics or ethics behind the issue!
http://www.imeche.org/knowledge/themes/environment/global-food?WT.mc_id=HP_130007

allAfrica.com: Africa: Waste Not, Want Not, Incentivise Not - What to Do About Food Waste? (Page 1 of 2)

In my GPP role we talk about £18Bn pounds of food thrown out in the UK each year when the World Food Program busget is only 10Bn. We also spend 37Bn on bottled water when the UN estimates it would only cost 18Bn to get clean water to everyone. We should see some progress in the next ten years on this. Lets look back then!

www.globalpovertyproject.com

And it was at this point with the House of Lords celebration event for LiveBelowTheLine that EA Effective Altruism came into the discussion and on my radar for evidence based thought and action and using research such as www.givewell.org