Prevent food wastage to mitigate hunger!! About 805 million people in the world, or one in nine, suffer from hunger, according to a new UN report. This appears to be quiet ironical given the fact that there is enough food for every one. According to report, almost one third of all food is wasted, globally more precisely because of lack of facility for food security and storage. If we are able to prevent the wastage of food, it can help in feeding millions of starving people. Though the State of Food Insecurity in the World (SOFI 2014) confirmed a positive trend which has seen the number of hungry people decline globally by more than 100 million over the last decade and by more than 200 million since 1990-92, more needs to be done on hunger reduction in developing countries we really want to halve the proportion of undernourished people by 2015 under the Millennium Development Goal. On World Food Day, let us take a collective pledge to stop wastage of food which will go a long way in reducing the number of hungry people in our country.
Posted on: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 15:01:46 +0000
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