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How to Feed 10bn People in a Sustainable Way

More admission that capitalist production, i.e. the way the global capitalist system has been producing food and the way it is consumed is the main cause of environmental degradation, not the myth of over population is the cause of climate change. Related One-third of food produced for human consumption is lost or wasted globally .  This amounts to about 1.3 billion tons per year, worth approximately  US$1 trillion . All the food  produced but never eaten would be sufficient to feed  two billion people . That's more than twice the number of undernourished people across the globe.

Waste

"The 923 million tonnes of food being wasted each year would fill 23 million 40-tonne trucks. Bumper-to-bumper, enough to circle the Earth seven times."  "Wasted food is responsible for 8-10% of greenhouse gas emissions, so if food waste was a country, it would be the third-biggest emitter of greenhouse gases on the planet." “While millions of tonnes of food was thrown away, an estimated 690 million people were affected by hunger in 2019. That number is expected to rise sharply in the wake of the pandemic.” Source: the bbc