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Researchers are working to solve the problem of wasted food : Kathleen Franklin/Flickr CC 2.0

Worried about food waste? Here’s how researchers are working to solve the problem

How science is solving food waste

Worried about food waste? Here’s how researchers are working to solve the problem

Farmers planting trees at Jagoi Heritage Forest in Bau, Kuching, Sarawak. The Indigenous peoples’ traditional response to improve the condition of the forest in their catchment area is by planting more trees such as timber trees, bamboo, rattan and wild fruit trees. : Prof Gabriel Tonga Noweg Photo supplied by the author

The Indigenous people's respect for the land and their traditional agricultural practices can teach us to adapt to extreme weather conditions.

Indigenous lessons

Indigenous farming knowledge is science, not superstition

The Indigenous people’s respect for the land and their traditional agricultural practices can teach us to adapt to extreme weather conditions.

Wheat, grown in vast fields, cannot easily be protected by glasshouses : Dag Endresen CC 2.0

As climate change enters uncharted territory, we will need all the skills of the past, and some from the future, to keep feeding the world.

Science against the clock

Future food depends on the cutting edge

As climate change enters uncharted territory, we will need all the skills of the past, and some from the future, to keep feeding the world.

Micronutrient deficiency affects the health of more than two billion people. : Marco Verch Professional Photographer/Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/30478819@N08/50916158133 CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/

Our world is not suffering from a lack of calories, but a lack of good nutrition which can sustain us. Science might just have the answers.

Science against the clock

Obese and malnourished: the food future we face

The food budget has long been seen as a flexible household expense. : ₳Ⱡ₣ⱤɆĐ/Flickr CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

Requiring retailers to be involved in promoting healthy options can help people better manage their cost of living.

Affordable nutrition

Tighter financial belts leading to expanding waistlines

Food assistance during emergencies is neither culturally competent nor geographically targeted. : Biswarup Ganguly/Wikimedia Commons https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/11/Free_Food_Distribution_-_Gangasagar_Fair_Transit_Camp_-_Kolkata_2012-01-14_0613.JPG CC BY 3.0

Modifying traditional foods for disaster-prone states in India can ensure adequate nutrition for people most in need.

Affordable nutrition

Food aid can be food wasted

Challenges to the supply and demand sides of food in India is increasing poverty across the country. : Anurag Gautam, Unsplash CC BY 4.0

India’s inflation problem is making hunger worse and attempts to fix inflation may just add to poverty.

Affordable nutrition

India’s social safety net offers lessons as food prices rocket up

The Fijian diet has shifted in recent years away from food and vegetables, towards carbohydrates and sugar. : Pacific Community CC 2.0

Taxes on sugary drinks can often improve a nation’s economy, rather than having the devastating impact industry has claimed.

Affordable nutrition

Sugar tax could boost both health and economy

The nutritional quality of many Indians’ diets have deteriorated since the start of the pandemic. : Melissa Viiron, Unsplash CC BY 4.0

One in five children in India are too thin, and yet at the same time obesity levels are on the rise.

Affordable nutrition

India’s double edged nutrition problem