We can impact climate change

If you compare Earth's history to a calendar year, then we have only existed for about 37 minutes - and we have used 33% of Earth's entire natural resources in the last 0.2 seconds. We have hit a limit in measuring the ecological footprint of this burgeoning population – the amount of biologically productive land and water a person requires for producing the resources it consumes.

Food Waste

The U.N. report estimates 17 per cent of the food produced globally each year is wasted.

Food waste and food loss undermine the sustainability of our food and environmental systems. When food is lost or wasted, the resources that were used to produce this food, including water, land, energy, labor and capital, go to waste. Additionally, food that is produced but not eaten ends up in landfills, creating methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, further contributing to climate change, not to mention wasting precious fresh water.

The inefficiency of food processing and agriculture waste billions of kilos of what is not even thought of as food. This “waste” has massive value. Including: natural compounds, vitamins, proteins, polyphenol, amino acids and more.

Population Growth

By 2050, with the global population expected to reach 9.8 billion, our food supplies will be under far greater stress. Demand will be 60% higher than it is today, but climate change, urbanization, and soil degradation will have shrunk the availability of arable land, according to the World Economic Forum.

With the anticipated population growth, and economic development, our global resources will not allow us to reliably support this demographic transition without either considering dramatic changes.