Day 26 of UK lock down: Food for Thought

Food accounts for over a quarter (26%) of global greenhouse gas emissions;

Half of the world’s habitable (ice- and desert-free) land is used for agriculture;

70% of global freshwater withdrawals are used for agriculture;

78% of global ocean and freshwater eutrophication (the pollution of waterways with nutrient-rich pollutants) is caused by agriculture;

94% of mammal biomass (excluding humans) is livestock. This means livestock outweigh wild mammals by a factor of 15-to-1. Of the 28,000 species evaluated to be threatened with extinction on the IUCN Red List, agriculture and aquaculture is listed as a threat for 24,000 of them.

https://ourworldindata.org/environmental-impacts-of-food

Yet one third of all food produced globally is lost or wasted each year, amounting to 1.3 billion tonnes.

http://www.fao.org/food-loss-and-food-waste/en/

Meanwhile, 1.9 billion adults are overweight or obese, while 462 million are underweight.

https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/malnutrition

Bon appetit !