Reducing food waste – and greenhouse gas emissions
Climate change and food security are among the biggest problems facing the world today, and the fact that an increase in the former means a lot less of the latter simply makes both problems even more urgent. While the overlap in the consequences of these two problems might be obvious, what is less clear is that both problems share a common cause; food waste.
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