food shortage, food waste, global food production

Food Waste: We Must Learn That Brown Fruit Isn’t Bad Fruit

We tend to avoid choosing apples with brown spots, assuming that they taste bad. But if we are to end food waste, we’ll need to upend that assumption. A UCPH researcher emphasizes that there’s nothing wrong with oddly shaped or bruised apples. Which bananas end up in your shopping basket — the uniformly yellow ones ...

Troy Oakes

A speckled ripe banana.

High Carbon Footprint Households Identified by Sweets and Restaurant Meals, Not Higher Meat Consumption

Families with higher carbon footprints are likely to consume more confectionaries, alcohol, and restaurant food, according to a new study published in One Earth. Considering the spectrum of traditional to urban lifestyles across Japan, researchers at the University of Sheffield and the Research Institute for Humanity and Nature in Kyoto, Japan, analyzed the carbon footprints ...

Troy Oakes

Jars of candies.

Climate Change Is Causing Widespread Hunger and Water Scarcity

With climate patterns across the world changing unpredictably, experts have been saying that the consequences of such climate change could be devastating for human society. A series of reports now warns that the climate crisis will trigger widespread hunger and water scarcity that could push the world into intense conflicts. The crisis According to a ...

Jack Roberts

Climate patterns around the world.