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 the World
Food waste is a very critical and serious topic and needs to be further discussed. Poverty is perhaps the most significant factor contributing to hunger. People living in poverty often lack access to nutritious food due to financial dwindling. Majority of the hunger in the world is caused by poverty. Millions live with hunger and malnourishment because they simply cannot afford to buy enough food, cannot afford nutritious foods or cannot afford the farming supplies they need to grow enough good food of their own. About 783 million people go without food in our world today, yet about one pound per person is being wasted on a daily basis. As a whole we should do a better job at reducing the amount of food waste. For example having what you had the previous day as dinner for the next day. Or taking smaller portions of food so you’re not forced to throw away the food you do not want. Taking this into consideration will make people feel lucky that they have food instead of lacking it like others in most countries. To address this issue of hunger, and lack of food in our world, we need to do a better job at not being wasteful and taking into consideration that we as a whole are lucky to have food. People today tend to be ungrateful for what they have and want more. Most don’t look at the bigger picture. Being that they are extremely lucky to have what they have. Almost 1 in every 15 children in developing countries dies before the age of 5, most of them from hunger-related causes. While hunger exists worldwide, 526 million hungry people live in Asia. Over a quarter of the world's undernourished people live in Sub-Saharan Africa.In the world, a child dies from hunger once every 10 seconds. Leading to bigger and worse problems. Poor nutrition and hunger is responsible for the death of 3.1 million children each year.