The global food system—which encompasses the journey of food production from the farms to our plates—is exerting enormous pressure on our environment. By 2050, with a projected increased global population of 9.8 billion, we would need the equivalent of almost three planets worth of resources to sustain our way of living, if our current consumption and production patterns remain the same. A 2021 study published in Nature said that 34 percent of global human-caused greenhouse emissions, which exacerbate climate change, are driven by the global food system, from production, land-use change, to packaging and transporting our food.

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