What did you learn about dietary choices from using the footprint calculator? Now imagine that you could translate what you learned into an effective societal policy on food- what would it be? And how would this policy effect the need to alleviate world hunger?
925 million people on earth do not have enough to eat according to the FAO [Food and Agricultural Organization]. That's almost 1 in 7 inhabitants of our planet!
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There's plenty of food for all of us, but why does world hunger exist?
There are some people with too much food (people that don't care to think to throw away the half eaten meal or give it to someone who needs it) and there are others that have very little or none at all. We are more than 2 billion people away from the carrying capacity of humans on Earth but there are still people that can't find enough food to survive.
I agree Muhammad. A main form a waste that I constantly notice is food waste. After school lunch, the trash is filled with food that is either half eaten, or possibly not eaten at all. It is important to reduce the amount of food we throw away because not only are people starving, but the food will get packed into our landfills (and without the correct measures, they wont be able to compost).