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    Quote Originally Posted by Mister D View Post
    I'd imagine that a lot of it is used for other purposes. Charity, animal feed etc.
    Animal feed yes, but only so much gets used that way. Very little goes to charity. Food banks don't take much in the way of fresh produce and there are only so many soup kitchens. I think that a good idea might be the development low-cost/free cooking schools that both teach professional cooking skills to kids in poor neighborhoods and at the same time provide nutritious meals for the neighborhood at really low prices. This would be a responsible way to save this produce from the landfill sites, provide skills as well as low-cost meals to people who may be working two jobs to get by and haven't the time to prepare decent meals for their families.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter1469 View Post
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    Spoilage is a huge problem.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dr. Who View Post
    Animal feed yes, but only so much gets used that way. Very little goes to charity. Food banks don't take much in the way of fresh produce and there are only so many soup kitchens. I think that a good idea might be the development low-cost/free cooking schools that both teach professional cooking skills to kids in poor neighborhoods and at the same time provide nutritious meals for the neighborhood at really low prices. This would be a responsible way to save this produce from the landfill sites, provide skills as well as low-cost meals to people who may be working two jobs to get by and haven't the time to prepare decent meals for their families.
    It's a shame that it doesn't. I have no problem with the state giving some incentive for distributors to make such arrangements.
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    Hunger levels are "alarming" in seven countries...

    Central African Republic, Chad, Zambia top global hunger index
    October 11, 2016 - Hunger levels in developing countries have fallen 29 percent since 2000, but efforts to curb hunger must be accelerated in order to meet an international target to eradicate it by 2030, according to an annual index published on Tuesday.
    Hunger levels are "alarming" in seven countries, with Central African Republic (CAR), Chad and Zambia experiencing the worst levels, according to the 2016 Global Hunger Index. Haiti, reeling from last week's Hurricane Matthew and still recovering from a massive 2010 earthquake, has the fourth highest hunger score. Another 43 countries, including India, Nigeria and Indonesia, have "serious" hunger levels.

    At the current rate of decline, more than 45 countries - including India, Pakistan, Haiti, Yemen, and Afghanistan - will have "moderate" to "alarming" hunger scores in the year 2030, the authors of the index said. "Countries must accelerate the pace at which they are reducing hunger" if they are to meet the 2030 target, Shenggen Fan, director general of the Washington-based International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), said in a statement. "Ending global hunger is certainly possible, but it's up to all of us ... (to) set the priorities right to ensure that governments, the private sector and civil society devote the time and resources necessary," Fan added.


    A girl drinks water as women queue for blankets and food given out by Nigerien soldiers in Damasak

    World leaders agreed a 2030 deadline for ending global hunger last year as part of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) - an ambitious plan for tackling poverty, hunger and inequality. IFPRI produces the annual index along with aid agencies Concern Worldwide and Welthungerhilfe. Overall, some 795 million people go to bed hungry every night. "We have the technology, knowledge and resources to achieve (zero hunger). What is missing is both the urgency and the political will to turn commitments into action," said Dominic MacSorley, CEO of Concern Worldwide.

    The hunger index ranks countries based on undernourishment, child mortality, child wasting (low weight for height) and child stunting (low height for age). The 2016 report ranked 118 developing countries. Nearly half the population in CAR and Zambia, and one in three people in Chad, are undernourished, it showed. Sub-Saharan Africa has the highest hunger levels, followed closely by South Asia. "Too many people are hungry today. There is a need for urgent, thoughtful and innovative action to ensure that no one ever goes hungry again," said David Nabarro, special adviser to the U.N. secretary-general on the SDGs.

    https://www.yahoo.com/news/central-a...27.html?ref=gs

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    Degraded land contributes to hunger...

    UN: More Than a Billion People Live on Degraded Land, At Risk of Hunger
    September 12, 2017 — More than 1.3 billion people live on agricultural land that is deteriorating, putting them at risk of worsening hunger, water shortages and poverty, the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) said Tuesday.
    People's use of the earth's natural reserves has doubled in the last 30 years. Now a third of the planet's land is severely degraded, and every year 15 billion trees and 24 billion tons of fertile soil are lost, UNCCD said. "The land we live on is being strained to breaking point. Restoration and conservation are key to its survival," UNCCD said in a report launched in Ordos, China. UNCCD promotes good land stewardship, and is the only legally binding international agreement on land issues.

    As land becomes less productive — which can happen through deforestation, overgrazing, flash floods and drought — people are forced to migrate to cities or abroad, there is greater likelihood of conflict over dwindling resources, and countries' economies are hit, said UNCCD deputy executive secretary Pradeep Monga. "If you don't fix land degradation, we get into a cycle where people are losing their livelihoods, their homes, their fields," he said.


    Scattered trees dot the once densely forested land, seen from an airplane, in South Sudan.

    And if the amount of productive land shrinks, less will be available to feed the world's population, which is predicted to increase to more than 9 billion people by 2050, up from 7 billion today. "If we can stop land degradation and green our deserts, we can easily become food secure," Monga told Reuters. Small choices, like families cutting back on food waste, as well as improvements to land management, smarter ways to farm, and national policies to stop degradation, can make a lot of difference, he added.

    China, which introduced the world's first law to prevent and control desertification in 2002, has greened hundreds of thousands of hectares of desert in Inner Mongolia resulting in more food, more jobs and a better life for the local people, Monga said. "People's confidence in their quality of life is back, and these places become much more habitable," he said. Drought degrades land, but if countries have good drought plans in place and act on them, then people can be protected from its worst impacts. "We cannot prevent drought, but we can prevent the calamity and crisis that comes with that. It's like facing a hurricane — we have time," he said. "If we manage the land well, the world will become a much better place to live in every sense."

    https://www.voanews.com/a/un-billion...r/4025922.html

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    'There is no food insecurity in the world, there is food ignorance'...

    'Forgotten' crops could feed the planet
    [i]22 August 2018 - Just four crops - wheat, maize, rice and soybean - provide two-thirds of the world’s food supply. But scientists in Malaysia are trying to change that by reviving crops that have been relegated to the sidelines.[/i]

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    On a small fruit farm near the Straits of Malacca Lim Kok Ann is down to just one tree growing kedondong, a crunchy, tart berry that Malaysians mostly use in pickles and salads. “It’s not very well-known,” says the 45-year-old, who is instead focusing on longan berries and pineapples, which have bigger markets. For a smallholder like Lim, demand for kedondong would have to grow rapidly to justify scaling up his business. “We have to grow what is profitable,” he says. But less than an hour away in the Malaysian countryside, inside three giant, sleek and silver domes, scientists are trying to change the future of food. They’re pushing the boundaries of what humans eat by growing and processing so-called ‘alternative’ crops – such as kedondong.


    At the headquarters of global research centre Crops For the Future (CFF) this particular under-used fruit has been turned into an effervescent, sugar-free juice, high in vitamin C and getting top marks in sensory evaluations. “Anything you see here is a forgotten crop,” says Sayed Azam-Ali of the abundant plants weaving through the gardens of CFF outside Malaysia’s capital Kuala Lumpur. Spindly moringa trees, cream-coloured bambara groundnuts, the sour kedondong berry – these are crops which have been farmed for centuries but are virtually unknown outside the places where they grow. Even here, demand is dwindling. They’ve been relegated to the sidelines, says CFF head Azam-Ali, in favour of the “big four”.

    Prof Azam-Ali explains that just four crops – wheat, maize, rice and soybean – provide two-thirds of the world’s food supply. “We’re dependent on these four,” he says. “But actually there’s 7,000 crops we’ve been farming for thousands of years. We ignore all of those.” Researchers are trying to unlock the potential of these ignored crops – plants they describe as forgotten, under-used or ‘alternative’ as they are displaced by increasingly uniform diets fuelled by processed ingredients from the major crops. It’s a timely quest. The food sector is already responsible for nearly a third of global greenhouse gas emissions, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation. By 2050 it estimates the world must produce 50% more food to feed the projected global population of 10 billion. Meeting this demand without contributing to climate change, further eroding biodiversity and causing yet more damage to ecosystems calls for urgent solutions.


    Forgotten crops hold key answers, according to CFF. By investing in neglected local plants, countries can reduce their reliance on imported crops and their carbon-heavy supply chains. Reclaiming the variety of crops humans once ate also boosts food security at a time warming climates threaten existing crops. On top of that forgotten crops are among the most climate-resilient and nutritious, argues Azam-Ali. His summary is plain: “Dietary diversification is critical to the future of humanity.” Food security experts agree. “There is no food insecurity in the world, there is food ignorance,” says Cecilia Tortajada, a senior research fellow at the Institute of Water Policy at the National University of Singapore. “Whenever we have indigenous crops we tend to disregard them as if they were not valuable but they are,” she adds.



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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter1469 View Post
    Could ugly fruit and vegetables help solve world hunger?

    The idea: lots of food is tossed out, especially fruits and veggie, because people don't like they way they look. The article refers to them as ugly fruit and vegetables. This stuff certainly should be used to feed the poor.



    At the farmers markets that I go to I often buy the "ugly" fruit and veggies. Taste and nutrition is what matters.
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