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Food already in cupboards, supermarkets, & warehouses could feed humanity for 4 months, but potential food - berries, termites & krill - could extend that by another year.

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To learn more, start your googling with these keywords:
Food stock: the total amount of any particular food existing at any point in time
Strategic reserve: food intentionally kept on reserve to be sold when supplies otherwise become low
Stock to use ratio: the amount of stock of any given food at any point in time as a fraction of the total annual consumption of the commodity
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References:

Atkinson, A., Siegel, V., et al. 2009. A re-appraisal of the total biomass and annual production of Antarctic krill. Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers. Volume 56, Issue 5, 727-740

FAO. World Food Situation http://www.fao.org/worldfoodsituation/csdb/en/


FAO. World Cassava Situation and Recent Trends http://www.fao.org/docrep/009/x4007e/X4007E04.htm

Kaspari, M., Weiser, M.D. 2012. Energy, taxonomic aggregation, and the geography
of ant abundance. Ecography 35:65-72.

National Geographic https://www.nationalgeographic.com/what-the-world-eats/

National Geographic https://www.nationalgeographic.com/what-the-world-eats/

Penn State University Extension. Oil factsheet: oilseed presses. 7pp (undated).


Ritchie, H., Roser, M. 2018. "Meat and Seafood Production & Consumption". Published online at OurWorldInData.org. Retrieved from: 'https://ourworldindata.org/meat-and-seafood-production-consumption'

Sanderson, MG. 1996. Biomass of termites and their emissions of methane and carbon dioxide: A global database. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 10, 543-557.


Statista https://www.statista.com/statistics/251728/weekly-number-of-us-grocery-shopping-trips-per-household/

USDA ISSN: 1554-9089, World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates, February 8, 2018;
https://www.usda.gov/oce/commodity/wasde/latest.pdf (latest monthly update)


Wilson, RW. et al. 2009, Contribution of Fish to the Marine Inorganic Carbon Cycle, Science 323, 359-362
https://fpaq.ca/en/federation/marketing/marketing-tools/strategic-reserve/

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