Food Facts

*To meet human nutritional needs over the next forty years, global agriculture will have to supply as much food as has been produced during all of human history (Cetron and Davies 2003).

*Since the late 1970s, an estimated six million hectares of agricultural land have been lost annually to desertification and severe soil degradation. (Speth 2002).

*Food wastes (including packaging) account for 1/3 of all solid waste in industrialized countries (Pinderhuges 2004).

*The food system causes 15% of global greenhouse gas emissions (Pirog 2001).

*In North America, food travels on average over 2,000 km from source of production to place of consumption (Roseland 2005).

From the Harmony Foundation