The edible food that you will never eat

An estimated 1.3 billion tonnes of food – a third of all the calories grown around the world – is thrown away without being eaten. Some is lost as it is harvested, more as it is transported and sold in shops, and then there is the food scraped off our plates and into the bin at the end of a meal.

All this wasted food has the potential to feed the hundreds of millions of people who still go hungry around the world. At the same time, it also has a huge impact on the climate due to the greenhouse gasses released during its production and later as it rots. So, can more be done to reduce loss and waste in the food supply chain?

In this episode of Follow the Food, botanist James Wong meets the farmers, scientists and innovators who are pioneering ways of tackling this problem and find new ways of using food that would otherwise go to waste.

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