Knowledge & Technology to Reduce and Use Food Waste

Abstract

While 795 million people suffer from chronic undernourishment and around two million are over weight, about $ 1 trillion food is wasted and lost every year contributing to the global warning also by the GHG emissions!Thus, it is necessary to promote eco-sustainable ways to reduce this waste from the farm to the consumer through all the supply chain, by industrial and political initiatives together with the school education and mass-media involvement for changing also the people attitudes towards this important problem. In addition it will be necessary to eliminate inequality of conditions and under nutrition at global level between developed and developing countries. The use of advanced nanotechnologies and the agricultural and industrial by-products will be necessary to solve this great problem, increasing human health and wellbeing, slowing down the consume of the precious natural raw materials for the incoming generations. This virtuous way of doing could contribute to reduce the environmental disasters also. The use in more large scale of fishery's waste by innovative technologies capable to fractionate not only chitin and calcium carbonate, but also the precious proteins content will probably help to partially solve this great problem of food loss, reducing the undernourishment of many populations.