Low Global Warming Potential Refrigerants Help Reduce Food Waste to Feed a Hungry World

When it comes to ending world hunger, we are headed in the wrong direction. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations estimates that 828 million people were affected by hunger in 2021, an increase of 46 million from the previous year and 150 million since 2019.

You can blame the usual suspects for worsening conditions: COVID-19 and its impact on the supply chain; inflation, which has caused the agriculture price index to spike 19% since 2021; and global warming and its severe effect on agricultural production. Less obvious – but just as consequential – is the enormous impact of loss and waste on the global food supply.