Tuesday, March 15, 2016
Commentary from Rockefeller Foundation: A Solution to Hunger? Stop Throwing Dinner Away
Picture a field ready for harvest. Any field in the world, it doesn’t matter: an acre of cassava in Nigeria, a rice paddy in Indonesia, some amber waves of grain in the United States. Now harvest this imaginary field, and toss one third of it into the trash.
Welcome to the global food supply chain of 2016, a vast system in quiet crisis which requires an emergency intervention to nourish people, preserve our planet and protect profits.
By 2050, the earth’s population will have swelled to an estimated 9.7 billion people. According to Rockefeller Foundation research, all the food that never makes it from farm to table could feed all of the 1.2 billion hungry or undernourished people on the planet today.
While hunger is the most visible part of this quiet global crisis, it is certainly not the only impact. . .