“We are on the way to a raging food catastrophe,” the UN Secretary-General said.
The global population has been growing slowly since the 1950s, falling under 1% in 2020.
The world produces enough food yearly, around 4 billion tons, to feed everyone, but around one-third of all food made, approximately 1.3 billion tons of fruit, vegetables, dairy and meat, goes to waste,According to the World Wildlife Fund, that's enough calories to feed every undernourished person. Osendarp added that if women and children cannot afford or have access to healthier, vitamin-rich foods, they risk having micronutrient deficiencies.
"We call this hidden hunger because you don't immediately notice it, but you do see it in individuals that lack these critical vitamins," she said. "It has devastating impacts on their survival, their immunity, their health, but also on their growth and overall development. The impacts will last for a long time."
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