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It’s a sign of our times that only recently has the term ‘food security’ become commonplace. While the world’s best minds can send robots to Mars and discuss prolonging lifetimes, we have yet to solve that old chestnut – hunger. While those with access to food eat and waste too much of it, millions remain malnourished. Chris Wright gathers a world panel of food experts to look at the problems and solutions behind Earth’s latest eating disorder.
The global food system is rife with horrible statistics. One is that 925 million people experience hunger, at a time when we as a planet produce enough food globally for all of them. Another states that just under 15 per cent of people in the developing world are undernourished. Grain prices, meantime, have risen 12 per cent in a year. And finally? Up to half of the food currently produced in the world ends up in waste.
Read the article here: 26-41 Fixing Food
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