Even as the issue of global hunger continues to occupy a place of prominence among the priorities of the international community, a UN Environment Programme (UNEP) report released earlier this week asserts that, globally, more than one billion meals a day went uneaten in households across the world in 2022, even as 783 million people were affected by hunger and a third of humanity faced food insecurity.
The disclosure, made in Nairobi, Kenya earlier this week, amounts to a shocking revelation in the disparities that exist in the global food distribution regime and asks serious questions of governments and international organizations charged with devising strategies aimed at pushing back global hunger. The shocking ‘food waste’ malady is among the key elements contained in the report which states that setting aside widespread hunger, food waste continues to hurt the global economy and fuel climate change, nature loss and pollution.