Up to half of all food produced is wasted

The Institution of Mechanical Engineers reported that anywhere between 1.2 and 2 billion tons of food is wasted each year, which means that it is possible that half of the food produced on this planet is wasted. “Due to poor practices in harvesting, storage and transportation, as well as market and consumer wastage, it is estimated that 30–50% of all food produced never reaches a human stomach” the institute reports. The major cause of this wastage is inadequate engineering and agricultural knowledge, another is the demand from supermarkets for always perfect produce, causing much produce to be thrown away, and their influencing customers to buy more food than is needed.