Where the world’s food goes

Where the world’s food goes

Enough food is grown every year to feed everyone on the planet. The reason that hundreds of millions of people continue to go hungry isn’t to do with total production. It’s more to do with distribution, poverty or conflict. This study of global food flows illustrates how much is grown and where it goes. It features in Mike Berners-Lee’s new book and I thought I’d share it. On the left we see the calories that go into the global food system, as c…