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
The topic of Food and Hunger refers to the cost and waste of food as well as the starvation of people due to this.
Why is this a problem? Because every year Nine Million people die from starvation alone. That's around 1,000 people an hour dying from hunger in the entire world. And there are around 800 million people that suffer from starvation and poverty in general. hunger/ starvation alone can cause less productive individuals, who are more prone to disease and not able to earn a higher income and improve their livelihoods.
What can we do to fix this? It will cost $267 billion per year on average to end world hunger by 2030. There will need to be investments in rural and urban areas so that people in poverty have access to food and can improve their livelihoods. You personally can help by changing certain things in your life. Such as only shopping at businesses that support charity for the homeless of the more unfortunate and donating to charities that you have done research on and know are good. Because some actually profit towards unhelpful organizations.