{"id":258205,"date":"2017-01-06T07:54:31","date_gmt":"2017-01-06T11:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=507664ed2d9cf0b0b4f53d854a4146cf"},"modified":"2017-01-06T07:54:31","modified_gmt":"2017-01-06T11:54:31","slug":"reducing-spoilage-in-food-aid-shipments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=258205","title":{"rendered":"Reducing spoilage in food aid shipments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) ships out food aid worth more than $1 billion every year\u2014over a million tons of grains, soybeans, and other staples sent to dozens of countries around the world. Even though the agency estimates that only about 1 percent of that food is lost to spoilage, that&#8217;s still over 10 million dollars&#8217; worth of food annually that never gets to needy people&#8217;s plates. And some within-nation food procurement suffers even higher losses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) ships out food aid worth more than $1 billion every year&mdash;over a million tons of grains, soybeans, and other staples sent to dozens of countries around the world. Even though the agency estimates that only about 1 percent of that food is lost to spoilage, that&#8217;s still over 10 million dollars&#8217; worth of food annually that never gets to needy people&#8217;s plates. And some within-nation food procurement suffers even higher losses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-258205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=258205"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":258206,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258205\/revisions\/258206"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=258205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=258205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=258205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}