a considerable potential for increasing the nutritional status of people and the efficiency of the whole food chain lies in encouraging changes in diet and consumption patterns as well as designing pronutrition policies in other sectors such as health and education in addition reducing food losses is a costeffective means of increasing the availability of safe and nutritious food for all preventing food wastage would also reduce the challenge of how to increase production in a world with limited natural resources in particular the livestock sector which has grown rapidly to meet the increasing demand for meat is a prime contribution to water scarcity pollution land degradation and greenhouse gas emissions