Articles tagged as: international water institute
Half of All Food Produced Worldwide is Wasted
August 25, 2008
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, August 22, 2008 (ENS) – Tremendous quantities of food are wasted after production – discarded in processing, transport, supermarkets and kitchens – and this wasted food is also wasted water, finds a policy brief released Thursday at World Water Week in Stockholm [www.siwi.org]. The brief authored by the Stockholm International Water Institute, the [...]
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World Water Crisis Underlies World Food Crisis
August 20, 2008
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, August 18, 2008 (ENS) – The world’s supplies of clean, fresh water cannot sustain today’s “profligate” use and inadequate management, which have brought shrinking food supplies and rising food costs to most countries, WWF Director General James Leape told the opening session of World Water Week in Stockholm today. “Behind the world food [...]
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