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The world has limited resources and a growing population . By the ____________________ of this century there could be three billion extra mouths to ____________________ . So wasting food , this new report says , is a tragedy that ____________________ not continue . The study says changing the way consumers in the ____________________ world reject less - than - perfect - looking vegetables in the shops , and ____________________ large quantities of meat - which requires a lot of resources to ____________________ to market - could have an impact .

But the engineers who wrote ____________________ report also recommend better use of scarce land and water around ____________________ whole world . They say that putting more land to agriculture will ____________________ difficult without damaging the environment , so improving the efficiency of farming ____________________ vital . The report says better irrigation is the key here , because ____________________ used in agriculture is often sourced badly : from aquifers which are ____________________ managed . In some cases , the engineers say , governments and aid agencies ____________________ exacerbated this problem by sinking boreholes in the wrong places .

The ____________________ also says that irrigating crops through spraying or flooding fields is ____________________ because so much of the water evaporates . It says that drip ____________________ trickle methods of irrigation , while more expensive to install , can be ____________________ much as a third more efficient .