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Reducing the amount of global food waste is essential. Using examples, discuss the main solutions to this problem. There has been increasing concern about food waste in recent years. As the global population is rising fast, reducing the amount of global food waste has become essential to make sure everyone will have enough sustenance to survive. According to Institution of Mechanical Engineers (2013), it is estimated that 30-50% (1.2-2 billion tonnes) of all food produced worldwide is discarded before reaching a human stomach. Consequently, mankind needs collectively to promote sustainable ways of reducing this wastage. This essay will describe typical situations relating to food waste and will focus on practical solutions to this issue.…

Hunger has always been a problem for our world. Today, 842 million people are currently undernourished. Now, that’s nothing compared to the statistic in 1992. In 1992, 1 billion people were undernourished. There are many determinants as to why the people of our world are suffering from famine, hunger or starving. Economic policies have been contributing to an increase in food prices. (Clapp) The uneven distribution of food production, food trade and poor access to food are the key reasons people…

Sustainability and resilience is not a new topic. It is subject that has been around since humans started civilization. Not being able to properly sustain has caused some civilizations to decline in the past. Land is taught to be vast, but in reality, little to that thought is true. Instead land is very limited and must be used wisely. Food shortage have played a key role in the down of many empires. Currently more than one hundred million acres of land that otherwise could be used for…

people in the world today which means that one in every six people do not get enough food to be healthy and lead an active life” (Turner,…

extremely influenced in the world by food in security. The targets for achievement the Millennium Development Goals (MGD) was to be implemented from 2007 to 2012. In this report, causes of food insecurity in Congo are found to be poverty, natural disasters, and the brutal civil conflicts, disrupted economic activity. So the causes of these factors have affected…

prevent imminent widespread starvation in the country. If this problem of food insecurity is not immediately addressed, it will result in a humanitarian tragedy and open the possibility of portions of its northern region being overrun by ISIL militants from across the border. This deteriorating condition in Côte d’Ivoire was originally ignited by the country’s devastating civil war. The civil war over a disputed election brought governmental and humanitarian services to a halt, but has hopefully…

6 September 2014, Rome - About 805 million people in the world, or one in nine, suffer from hunger, according to a new UN report released today. 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 209 million since 1990-92. The report is published annually by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the International Fund for Agricultural Development…

countries bleed food waste, while the rest of the world cries of hunger. In an increasingly globalized world, the loss of food waste contrasted with millions of people suffering from hunger is a painful paradox. This enormous wastage exists at the same time as one billion people in the world are suffering and dying from hunger. The act of food waste looks normal in our society; it seems that the people are forced to throw out what is no longer useful. Everybody can see how people have the luxury…

It was the food price crisis in 2008 that made evident to the international community that food se-curity can be a complex threat to society. Since that moment, food waste gained great international relevance being considered in 2011 by the Agriculture and Rural Development –European Commis-sion as important as energy efficiency (EU Res. 2011/2175(INI)). FAO among other institutions re-ported that global limitations on food availability would exist in the upcoming years up to 2050, which,…

specifically through the issues of energy security, food security and water security as these issues are the most prominent facets of resource scarcity.…