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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Food and Hunger
In today’s society hunger is a major problem around the world, and can be prevented with food. According to the article linked below it says that 1.3 billion tons of food is wasted every year around the world and it is worth about 1 trillion US dollars. We can use this food to help, and feed those in need of food. The article also talks about how the developed/rich countries waste as much food as the entire sub-saharan africa produces. It also talks about how if the wasted food were to be a country, it would be the 3rd largest producer of carbon dioxide in the world. All the food that is being wasted can feed up to 2 Billion people across the world, and that is more than twice the people that have no food. We can finally say that if we save the food being wasted, and use it for its purpose which is to keep us alive we can feed the people in hunger and even more.