Sweden creates US$1 million prizes for sustainable food solutions
The world's population is expected to grow to close to 10 billion by 2050, and feeding a population of that size will be possible only through transforming eating habits, improving food production and reducing food waste, experts say. – EPA pic, February 20, 2020.
SWEDEN has created two US$1 million prizes for solutions to feed billions of people, as climate change threatens the world’s food supply and a growing population requires sustainable food systems, organisers said today. “We need a food system revolution or risk destabilising our planet. The new Food Planet Prize is designed to contribute to this goal,” Johan Rockstrom, director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Research in Germany who will co-chair the prize jury, said in a statement.
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