Full Video: US Ambassador To UN Thomas-Greenfield Keynote Address in Ghana on Global Food Security Crisis

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The unprecedented global food security crisis calls for an unprecedented global response, and this is the right vision to address it

 

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In the United States, food waste is estimated at between 30-40 percent of the food supply. This estimate, based on estimates from USDA's Economic Research Service of 31 percent food loss at the retail and consumer levels, corresponded to approximately 133 billion pounds and $161 billion worth of food in 2010.

Food Waste FAQs - USDA​

In his famous novel The Grapes of Wrath (Chapter 25), John Steinbeck described how food was destroyed during the Great Depression: Carloads of oranges dumped on the ground. The people come for miles to take the fruit, but this could not be. How would they buy oranges if they could drive out and pick them up?May 23, 2016

Waste and want: The Grapes of Wrath revisited​