More food from the same land

Yesterday I wrote about pressures on limited global farmland, and how we basically had two choices. We could look for new growing spaces, or try to get more food from what we have. Tomorrow I’ll look at the first of those, and today I’ll look at the second – is there any way to get more food from the same amount of land?

Food waste

One really good place to start is with food waste. Globally, a third of all food is wasted. 1.3 billion tonnes of food is thrown away every year. That’s food th...