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 waste
I learned that food waste is also a big problem. A lot of food gets thrown away, and all the energy used to produce and transport that food is wasted too.
If I could make a policy, I would focus on reducing food waste, like making stores donate unsold food and encouraging people to waste less at home.
This could help with world hunger because instead of throwing food away, it could go to people who don’t have enough to eat.
So reducing food waste could lower emissions and help feed more people at the same time.