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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Ending Hunger
Around the world 648 million people live in extreme poverty. Why should any child die from hunger if they survive on less than $2.15 a day.? In America we waste 60 million tons of food every year, can’t the food that we don’t need but still waste be used to feed the 648 million people who are in extreme poverty.? The waste of food is a missed opportunity that can help solve the problem of hunger around the world, The number of produced food that is being thrown away can be reduced. The over priced food is making the problem harder to solve since third world countries aren’t in good conditions where they can produce their own food, so it makes it harder for them to purchase food from other countries. We can try and solve this problem by not over buying food and instead sending the money to the countries that are in need of it. This problem of hunger around the world can simply be solved by managing our food waste. Just in United States 60 million tons of food is wasted yearly, and that's just the U.S. not world wide, the amount of food that we waste is A LOT. If all the countries who are in good conditions come together and limit some of these factors global hunger will no longer exist.,
Source: : https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02331-x