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Reducing wastage, both in the supply chain and on the table, as well as eating smarter will go a long way to satisfying the growing appetites of the world's population

October 26th, 2011 - 07:29 GMT

'Improving crop yields, stopping wastage are major challenges to avoid global food crisis'

As the world's population is expected to reach nine billion by 2050, there will be an extra 2.5 billion mouths to feed, meaning overall food production needs to be raised by 70 percent.