Roughly one third of the food produced in the world (~ 1.3 billion tonnes)
gets lost or wasted, with fruits, vegetables, roots and tubers having the highest wastage rates.33 Much of this is caused by the rigid product specification requirements of retailers and export
destinations, which will be increasingly harder
to meet as farming conditions become more unpredictable and varied.
It's not that I haven't been in the general vicinity, or have had the chance
to go there over other
destinations that are
roughly the same distance from New York, but I've
got to admit, it's quickly become one of the few places in the world where my -LSB-...]