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Foresight Programme’s ‘Future of Food and Farming’ project publishes key report with WRAP and Resource Futures' help

Resource Futures’ Technical Director, Julian Parfitt has been busily working jointly with WRAP on the production of a report on global food waste and the prospects for food production in the future. 

This important publication, for the Foresight Programme’s ‘Future of Food and Farming’ project, was launched at an event on 25th January 2011 at HM Treasury.

The report, as covered in national news, concluded that:

‘the prospects for feeding 9 billion people by 2050 are not good if the issue of global food waste is not taken more seriously. Although global food production is an infinitely complex subject,  the report findings suggest that even with intensification of current agriculture and improvement in crop varieties, the global food system will face enormous challenges over the coming decades: not least through the influence of climate change. However, on a more optimistic note: at least it is fairly certain that world population will not rise much beyond 2050.’

The full report is available at:

http://www.bis.gov.uk/foresight/our-work/projects/current-projects/global-food-and-farming-futures/reports-and-publications

The specific and specialist sections which Julian and other key experts at Resource Futures were involved with are available for reference at:

 

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Resource Futures helps WRAP understand recent reductions in food waste

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Resource Futures helps WRAP understand recent reductions in food waste

Resource Futures has recently helped WRAP to estimate how much household food waste has decreased nationally in recent years, with the recently published “Synthesis of Food Waste Compositional Data 2010” To see the report, click here.  

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