Families can be key players in a revolution needed to feed
the world, and could save money by helping to cut food losses now occurring
from field to fork to trash bin, an expert said here today. He described that
often-invisible waste in food — 4 out of every 10 pounds produced in the United
States alone — and the challenges of feeding a global population of 9 billion
in a keynote talk at the 245th National Meeting & Exposition of the
American Chemical Society, the world’s largest scientific society.
“We will need another ‘Green Revolution’ to feed the world
by 2050,” said John Floros, Ph.D., referring to the development of high-yield,
disease-resistant breeds of grain and other agricultural innovations that took
root in the 1960s.