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Discover LudwigThe phrase "food surplus" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where the amount of food produced exceeds the amount needed for consumption.
Example: "The region experienced a food surplus this year, allowing for exports to other countries."
Alternatives: "food excess" or "food overproduction".
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Gove appointed Ben Elliot, the co-founder of luxury lifestyle group Quintessentially, as the first "food surplus and waste champion" to reduce "unnecessary" food surplus in the UK.
The once-starving nation now has a 2m-tonne food surplus.
At that time, there was a food surplus because of the Depression.
When you make food surplus more visible then you can reduce it".
It does, however, provide a seasonal food surplus that might in many cases, considering the available techniques, be increased.
By the time the 1980's rolled around however, the opposite, food surplus, was now the problem.
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Later, beads allowed ancient people to transform food surpluses, created by shifts in production, into commerce and political power.
Migrant birds avoid equatorial forests where productivity is constant throughout the year, and food surpluses do not occur.
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