HUNGRY WORLD'S HUNKER : PRECIS

 

According to the World Food Program, 282 million people in 59 countries went hungry last year, 24 million more than in the previous year.

It is considerably harder to picture the equivalent for the food system. a proper food transition, delivering better nutrition more equitably and more affordably to more people, all without devastating ecosystem or polluting local environments or pushing the planet further into climate disarray.

Partly, this is a matter of sheer scale. More than half of America's land is used for agriculture production.

Outside the United States, the patterns are similar : More than one-third of the planet's land is used to produce food, and 70 percent of all fresh water is used to irrigate farmland.

The World Students Society thanks David Wallace-Wells.