The world's population is projected to hit 9 billion by
midcentury, and we've been reporting on how we're going to feed
all those people in our series "Food for 9 Billion." There are
lots of ways you can produce more food. But does it help not to
waste so much of it? Today, we bring you reports from the two
extremes of food waste. Jori Lewis is in the hinterlands of
Senegal, among former nomads who herd cattle. Read the full
transcript. So here in the U.S., we've got good roads, good
electricity and refrigeration. Our farmers stay in one place.
But still, we end up wasting a whole lot of food – and the land,
labor and resources used to produce it. Marketplace's Adriene
Hill explains. Read the full transcript. Anchor introduction:
The United Nations says by the middle of this century, there are
going to be 9 billion people living on this planet. That not-so-
simple fact raises a whole lot of questions – not the least of
which is how we're going to feed them all. How are we going to
get – as our series this year