Ok Fester, those figures do not represent your admirable managing skills. Taking into account my personal efforts I too find the figure rather high and I must admit that the link I provided didn't give any breakdown of the figures. Plus it mentions the UK and Canada. Australia would perhaps be similar or perhaps have less wastage, the point was to indicate that food wastage occurs in our developed economies.

For a more Australia-specific site: http://foodwise.com.au/did-you-know/fast-facts.aspx

Also, I think the article was trying to encourage the promotion of infrastructure improvement which as you correctly mention can reduce wastage in developing countries.

As for stable populations being conducive to less food wastage, take a look at Japan and how much food is thrown out on a daily basis (6,000 tons/day in Tokyo according to this March 2009 article): http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fd20090301pb.html

And this looks like a great implementation of technology to determine the use-by-date of each item of fresh produce (not all cuts of meats etc are made equal after all): http://www.theaustralian.com.au/australian-it/scientists-set-sights-on-cutting-food-wastage/story-e6frgakx-1225930192551

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