Food+Waste

= The PALEO PROBLEM: = As people began to settle and rely on food from periodically harvesting agricultural supplies, they needed to develop new ways to store and protect their food so that not too much was wasted.

Develop new technologies including advanced grain storage buildings erected in central locations in farming cities. Early graineries were so important for neolithic farmers in Mesopotamia, they were often built up into huge religious monuments called ziggurats and were managed by priests and powerful leaders.
 * The NEO SOLUTION: **

**MP4U (a modern problem for you):**
Today some estimate that as much as **half of the food we grow** ends up wasted! Why?

Could we solve many of our agricultural problems not by growing more, but by using more of the food we currently produce and wasting less? How?

Where do we waste the most food?



Find out more:
 * How much food do we really waste? Do businesses cause part of the problem?
 * How could food waste be a great opportunity for new MP4U businesses?
 * Love Food Hate Waste website from the UK

Possible innovations:
 * [|Biodigestors turn food waste into fuel & fertilizer]
 * [|Student movie explaining the Biodigestor at ISB]
 * [|PBS Lexicon of Sustainability: Food Waste: Gleaning, composting & more]
 * [|Ugly Foods Campaigns]
 * [|Food Fridge]
 * [|End Food Waste]