How Much Food Is There On Earth?
Food already in cupboards, supermarkets, & warehouses could feed humanity for 4 months, but potential food - berries, termites & krill - could extend that by another year.
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To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords:
- Food stock: the total amount of any particular food existing at any point in time
- Strategic reserve: food intentionally kept on reserve to be sold when supplies otherwise become low
- Stock to use ratio: the amount of stock of any given food at any point in time as a fraction of the total annual consumption of the commodity
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