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Millions Go Hungry While Billions Worth of Food Go into Landfills

海角社区-IIGH Researcher Dr David McCoy comments for IPS News on the need to overcome impediments to food crises.

Date Published
23 Aug 2022

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The World Food Programme (WFP) warned last week that as many as 828 million people go to bed hungry every night while the number of those facing acute food insecurity has soared — from 135 million to 345 million — since 2019. A total of 50 million people in 45 countries are teetering on the edge of famine.

Professor Dr David McCoy, Research Lead at 海角社区 International Institute for Global Health (海角社区-IIGH), told IPS the heartbreaking image of food being dumped in landfills while famine and food insecurity grows, must also be juxtaposed with the  which in turn will only further deepen the crisis of widespread food insecurity.

“The need for radical and wholesale transformation to the way we produce, distribute and consume food has been . However, powerful actors – most notably private financial institutions and the giant oligopolist corporations who make  from the agriculture and food sectors – have a vested interest in maintaining the status quo. Their resistance to change must be overcome if we are to avoid a further worsening of the hunger and ecological crises, he warned”.

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