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According to the United Nations, it wouldn’t take much to keep the world’s most vulnerable from going hungry.

From The Guardian:

If the amount of food wasted around the world were reduced by just 25% there would be enough food to feed everyone on the planet, according to the UN.

Each year 1.3bn tonnes of food, about a third of all that is produced, is wasted, including about 45% of all fruit and vegetables, 35% of fish and seafood, 30% of cereals, 20% of dairy products and 20% of meat. Meanwhile, 795 million people suffer from severe hunger and malnutrition.

Well-publicised attempts to combat the loss of food – such as recent laws in France that require supermarkets to distribute unsold food to charities – have highlighted the issue of food waste, identified by the UN as one of the great challenges to achieving food security.

Read more.

Also watch: John Oliver: We Waste a Third of Our Food While American Families Go Hungry

—Posted by Natasha Hakimi Zapata

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