WorldHunger

I used to say I'd use the last of my money to take a trip into outer space before I die.
No more. That was my privilege talking for me.
The neglect of projects to end world hunger and reverse declining food production is just one of a number of reasons the current "space race" is a mere entertaining diversion for the 1% and a dangerous misappropriation of resources for the rest of us.

#spacerace #worldhunger #FoodSecurity #techbros #techbroligarchy #oligarchy

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/jan/14/nobel-world-food-prize-laureates-global-hunger-open-letter-food-production?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

As Billionaire Wealth Soared in 2024, 35 Children Were Born Into Hunger Every Minute #wealth #inequality #billionaires #worldhunger https://www.commondreams.org/news/child-hunger-billionaire-wealth

Something the world desperately needs is global action on poverty: Brazilian President Lula unveils anti-poverty, hunger alliance at G20 #G20 #Brazil #poverty #worldhunger https://aje.io/ybgxd3

"Hunger Hotspots" — The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the World Food Programme warn that acute food insecurity is projected to worsen in 16 hunger hotspots through May 2025 #foodinsecurity #worldhunger https://openknowledge.fao.org/items/21824350-cfc8-4ac6-87ef-ce925df137e

Any #gardener will tell you easier to work with the climate you have, then the fact that people aren't going #hungry is a huge argument for!

#Agroecology Is the Solution to #WorldHunger
https://buff.ly/3CyhAqI

Dare to care ..
.. and beware: animal rights are connected to human rights. Of course because humans áre animals but there’s more that connects those two justice movements. World hunger, for example, is connected to animal agriculture on current (devastating) scale.

«“Western governments and humanitarian groups like Live Aid are fueling an operation that will be described with hindsight in a few years time as one of the greatest slaughters in the history of the twentieth century,” says Dr. Claude Malhuret, whose relief agency, Medicins sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders), has been kicked out of Ethiopia for speaking up against “the most massive violations of human rights we have seen in recent years.”»
https://www.spin.com/2015/07/live-aid-the-terrible-truth-ethiopia-bob-geldof-feature/

Food Wastage and Increasing Malnutrition #foodwaste #worldhunger #malnutrition #WHO #UnitedNations #nutrition #food https://countercurrents.org/2024/09/food-wastage-and-increasing-malnutrition/

#Women are Key to Ending #WorldHunger

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/cesar-chelala/107975/women-are-key-to-ending-world-hunger

Research by Wageningen University & Research shows that 'between 33 percent and almost 60 percent extra calories would be present in human food if crops that are directly suitable for human consumption are grown on arable land that is currently used for the production of animal feed.' #worldhunger #foodwaste #foodtransition https://www.wur.nl/nl/onderzoek-resultaten/onderzoeksinstituten/plant-research/show-wpr/rapport-over-extra-beschikbaarheid-voedsel-bij-vervanging-veevoer-op-akkerland-door-voedselgewassen.htm

Would you rather end world hunger but never be able to eat again or always have enough food but world hunger continues?

#CriticalQuestions #Quiz #PubQuiz #WorldHunger #Hunger #StayHome #StaySafe #StayHomeStaySafe

https://youtu.be/-X9sfhtvQeI

Hey #OSINT #osintforgood, World Food Programme's provides a live hunger map. #Hunger #worldhunger #journalism #journalists

https://hungermap.wfp.org/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_content=ap_l07wr2bt47

https://www.actionagainsthunger.org/the-hunger-crisis/world-hunger-facts/

#WorldHunger
#FeedingTheWorld

#Oxfam reports that in the midst of a global food and energy crisis, the top 95 food and energy corporations more than doubled their profits in 2022, according to the report, making $306 billion in windfall profits and paying out $257 billion of that to rich shareholders, at the same time as nearly 1 billion people went hungry #CorporateGreed #globalhealth #WorldHunger #WealthGap

Well worth reading this examination of issues around ecomodernist narratives, very common in the media and from some "environmental champions" about #ElectricCars #RenewableEnergy production, the #ClimateCrisis #WorldHunger and #PrecisionFermentation (lab produced food)

http://www.fraw.org.uk/blog/posts/024/index.shtml

Also on youtube if you prefer watching to reading

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZks2Jwsw2U

Vandana Shiva On the Real Cause of World Hunger
https://youtu.be/jEqS6rnoyYc
#Right2Food #FoodSystems #WorldHunger

Vandana Shiva On the Real Cause of World Hunger
https://youtu.be/jEqS6rnoyYc
#Right2Food #FoodSystems #WorldHunger