“Mostly a distribution problem”
Have you ever thought about how much food the world wastes and how this increases world hunger? It has been proven that of all the food produced for human consumption, over one-third of it is lost during a year and over the 35% of that would feed all the people who lack food in the world (Gunders). The planet is experiencing times of great frustration with this. While the birthrate increases approximately one percent every year, the food just does not get to all the people (Gunders). World hunger is an ancient problem in the world, in which Asia and Africa have been experiencing increasing alarming rates of starvation that demands a solution. World hunger is not due to a lack of food, but rather a disproportionate population distribution and an inadequate mismanagement of supplies.
The lack of food is more a myth than reality. The amount of grain produced in the world today could provide for each person on the planet to have the equivalent of two loaves of bread per day (Brown). Our current food production could feed seven billion people, plenty enough for the six billion people living on Earth (Gunders). However, it is evident by the number of deaths and suffering that exists in some continents, which hunger still persists.
Over the years it has been demonstrated that the amount of food the world has lost or wasted has increased dramatically. About 1974 people on the US had the manners of saving food because the production in the world was not the efficient that it is today (Femmer). Today we live in a world where food production has increased in a way where developed countries have an excess of food and people develop the custom to throw food instead of sharing or saving it; as a result the food waste increased to 1400 calories per day from 900 on 1974, only in the US (Femmer). That means about 75 trillion calories are wasted in a year. Instead they could be used to feed over 145 million people (Green). This
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