The bigger question is how we can possibly lose half of the food we produce before it even reaches our plates. That is a woefully inefficient system. The reason is that we feed livestock and cars, not people. The world produces 3 billion tonnes of cereals every year. Less than half of this goes towards human food; 41% is fed to livestock, and 11% is used for industrial uses, like biofuels. That global allocation is surprising, but when we look at specific countries the balance is jaw-dropping. Poor countries use nearly all of their cereals for human food. In Chad, Malawi, Rwanda, India, for
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