Health Desk-19 Oct,
2019: Despite producing more food than it can consume, humanity risks a
menacing mix of “food crises” brought on by social inequalities, environmental
degradation, climate change and wars, a UN report warned Friday, reports AFP.
After decades of steady decline, the number of people who
suffer from hunger worldwide has been slowly increasing since 2015, said the
report by the UN’s Food and Agriculture (FAO) Organization, the European
Commission and France’s CIRAD agricultural research centre.
Last year, more than 820 million people went hungry.
A key obstacle is unequal access: while some people throw
away food they buy too much of, others cannot afford or find the nutrition they
need, said the report entitled “Food Systems at Risk.”
“The available food on the planet amounts to just under
3,000 kilocalories per person per day, while the nutritional needs of the
population is estimated at about 2,200 kilocalories,” said Sandrine Dury, an
economist involved in the research.
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