With the novel coronavirus wreaking havoc around the globe, just about every nation faces major issues with its food supply. While a potentially devastating food security crisis looms, a food loss crisis has already taken hold.

With supply chains interrupted, many farmers have lost their major markets due to closures. From the U.S. Midwest to India’s countryside, farmers are dumping milk, plowing onions into fields, letting ripe fruit rot, killing piglets and more.

The food loss crisis is not a failure of individuals – not the farmers who work hard to ensure their labor goes toward nourishing people and not those on the other end of the supply chain whose livelihoods hang on ensuring that food makes it to people’s plates…Here are three changes that, if enacted, would help create a resilient global food system.

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