This blog entry discusses the challenge of food scarcity that many people all over the world face. headline ‘NOT EVERYONE WILL EAT TODAY’ 29/March/2021
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It is an undisputed fact that there is more than enough food to feed everyone. I fi rmly believe that if there was a genuine will from governments around the world to solve this crisis, it could be solved in a few short years. Food is a basic human right and it is a stain on the human race that so many people go hungry each day.
That dreadful hunger isn’t just in faraway places like the kinds we see in food charity adverts. There are people without a regular food supply in every country, in every city, town and village. Nearly 10 per cent of Irish households were at risk of food poverty in 2018. FoodCloud, a charity that operates in Ireland and the UK, redistributed 2,528 tonnes of food to 1,100 charities in 2016. (For comparison, the average car weighs about 1.5 tonnes.)
There are many reasons why food supply is an issue in different places around the world: war, famine, climate change, economic policy. Today I want to focus on two: waste and war.
CHALlENGES 101
When future generations look back, they will probably never forgive us for passing up the opportunities we have had to make the world a better place. Truly, we are living in the era of greatest innovation and change. Never before have we had such access to technology, more convenient ways to live, more food on the shelves, more money in the bank. But wait, there’s a problem with that list. These features of modern life that we take for granted are not experienced by everyone equally. This is a tragedy.
