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Course 1: Reduce Growth in Demand for Food and other Agricultural Products (Synthesis) | World Resources Institute Research

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The size of the food challenge—and the associated environmental and economic challenges—depends on the scale of the increase in demand for crops and animal-based foods by midcentury. The food, land, and GHG mitigation gaps are derived from reasonable estimates of business-as-usual growth in demand for crops and livestock. Yet such levels of growth are not inevitable. Course 1 menu items explore ways to reduce this projected growth in socially and economically beneficial ways. Of all the food produced in the world each year, approximately one-third by weight and one-quarter by calories is lost or wasted at various stages between the farm and the fork (Figure 4).14 Globally, food loss and waste results in nearly $1 trillion in economic losses,15 contributes to food insecurity in some developing countries, squanders agricultural land and water resources, and generates roughly one-quarter of all agricultural GHG emissions.16 Reducing food loss and waste in developed countries relies heavil

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