FAO Warns of Starvation Globally, Hunger Kills 14,000 Daily

The Food & Agriculture Organization (FAO) affiliated to the United Nations (UN) warns that more than 821 million people across the world suffer from starvation; meanwhile 14 thousand persons die from hunger every day.

The report sheds more light on squandering food across the planet as 14% of the whole product is lost at the stage between harvest and retailing.

In the Middle East and North Africa, the waste in foodstuff reaches 250 kg per person.

The total quantity is valued at more than $ 60 billion.

The international organization has issued a report revealing that a third of foodstuff is wasted every year.

This quantity is estimated at 1.3 billion tons.

The report pointed out that squandering of food leaves complicated economic, social, environmental fallouts in the developing countries.

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Those nations depend on food imports.

Foodstuffs are wasted in many ways; generally, the fresh products are removed because they do not the demand in the international markets.

Much has changed since 1974 when the FAO first began reporting on the extent of hunger in the world. The world population is growing steadily and is increasingly urbanized.

Technology is evolving incessantly and the economy is more and more globalized. At the same time, there are worrying global trends in malnutrition, including a rapid rise in overweight and obesity, even as forms of undernutrition persist.

The way food is produced, distributed and consumed worldwide has also changed dramatically. This vastly different world calls for new ways of thinking about hunger and food insecurity.

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As part of its mandate, FAO strives to eradicate hunger, food insecurity, all forms of malnutrition, supporting the livelihoods of small-scale food producers, improving the resilience of food production systems; the organisation is also encouraging the sustainable use of natural resources are all key to fulfilling this mandate and achieving Sustainable Development Goal 2 (SDG2), a world without hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition.

Hunger is an uncomfortable or painful physical sensation caused by insufficient consumption of dietary energy. It becomes chronic when the person does not consume a sufficient amount of calories (dietary energy) on a regular basis to lead a normal, active and healthy life.

Today, it is estimated that over 820 million people are going hungry. For decades, FAO has used the Prevalence of Undernourishment indicator to estimate the extent of chronic hunger in the world, thus “hunger” may also be referred to as undernourishment.