The man who wants to feed the world - with waste food

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[h=1]The man who wants to feed the world - with waste food[/h] 23 July 2014


"I want to feed the world."


It's a bold ambition for a man who set up a small cafe on a quiet street in Leeds.
But Adam Smith's Real Junk Food Project Cafe is different. All the food used in the cafe is "intercepted".


This doesn't mean they take food from bins or skips. Through relationships with local businesses they take in food past its expiry date but still edible, incorrectly labelled food, or food that would otherwise be thrown out.


The cafe is run by volunteers and meals are served on a "pay as you feel" basis. Customers can pay with money, or with their time or services.


The concept is now set to be expanded to other locations around the UK and the world.


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[krish44]

in india, FCI godowns are overflowing with grains while food prices are high. the govt has miserably failed to distribute food over the country and feed its hungry billions at reasonable prices. it is a yearly routine that food prices shoot up for four months when there is abundance of it which cannot be distributed. this is callous and poor governance of centre and states who blame each other. MNc s can be made to run efficient distribution chains to move food grains. probabyl it can be a good public private partnership.

 

[vgane]

in india, FCI godowns are overflowing with grains while food prices are high. the govt has miserably failed to distribute food over the country and feed its hungry billions at reasonable prices. it is a yearly routine that food prices shoot up for four months when there is abundance of it which cannot be distributed. this is callous and poor governance of centre and states who blame each other. MNc s can be made to run efficient distribution chains to move food grains. probabyl it can be a good public private partnership.

We also should not waste the food that we take in marriages, parties etc...As it is mostly buffet we can serve ourselves the right quantity that we can eat..As far as plantain leaf food served in marriage halls is concerned, let us say no to excess serving..It can be used for feeding a poor family!

 

[vgane]

in india, FCI godowns are overflowing with grains while food prices are high. the govt has miserably failed to distribute food over the country and feed its hungry billions at reasonable prices. it is a yearly routine that food prices shoot up for four months when there is abundance of it which cannot be distributed. this is callous and poor governance of centre and states who blame each other. MNc s can be made to run efficient distribution chains to move food grains. probabyl it can be a good public private partnership.

Absolutely true! We need to have more storage facilities if we have to plug the 44000 crores of wastages, which amounts to serving food for 3 crore people annually (@ Rs 40/day)

Rs 44,000 crore worth food wasted a year: Pawar - The Times of India

Fruits, grains and vegetables worth Rs 44,000 crore are lost every year due to lack of adequate storage infrastructure, the government told Parliament on Friday.

Admitting this in Rajya Sabha, food processing industries minister Sharad Pawar said the annual wastage of fruits and vegetables was estimated at Rs 13,309 crore. If wastage of rice, wheat, cereals and others was taken into account, it would increase to Rs 44,000 crore, he added.

Quoting a report of the Planning Committee-appointed Saumitra Chaudhuri committee in 2012, Pawar said the panel indicated that the country needed 61.3 million tonnes of cold storage against the present capacity of around 29 million tonnes.