Millions of people are malnourished due to lack of food. This frightening picture is when on an average 68,760,163 tonnes of food is wasted every year in India.

India has slipped from 91st place to 101st rank in the list of 116 countries on the Global Hunger Index. Today is World Food Day. According to the report of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), a United Nations organization, more than 69 crore people worldwide go to bed hungry every day. In India, the number of people who go to bed hungry every day due to lack of food is more than 200 million. This is the situation when 40 per cent of the food produced in the country every year gets spoiled due to maintenance or supply disorder.

Understand the importance of the theme
FAO’s theme this time is Grow, Nurish, Sustain, Our Action or Our Future which means nurture, nurture and grow, our effort is our future.

Starvation Could End
FAO says that 14 percent of food worldwide is spoiled because of lack of proper cutting, storage and supply. Similarly, 17 per cent of the food item is perishable at the consumer level. If this loss is stopped, then a large population of the world who is forced to sleep hungry can be fed.
40 percent of the world’s population cannot take nutritious food
2 million people are obese due to poor diet and irregular lifestyle
The world’s food system is responsible for 33 percent of greenhouse gas emissions
100 million jobs
In agriculture Around the world, about 100 million people work in agriculture and food-related sectors. These are the largest sectors in the world where
most people have jobs.

Waste of food in India Crores of people go to bed hungry in India, so a large population does not get nutritious food. That too when 50 kg of food per person is wasted every year in the country. If we estimate the total food wastage in India, every year 68,760,163 tonnes of food is wasted.

China has the highest food wastage
US, 59 kg of food per person is wasted every year. The total food wastage figure in a year is 19,359,951 tonnes. The per capita food waste rate in China is 64 kg. In the world’s most populous country, 91,646,213 tonnes of food is wasted every year.

84 crore will sleep hungry by 2030
According to the FAO report, currently 8.9 percent of the world’s population is sleeping hungry. By 2030, the number of people who go to bed hungry will be 84 crores. Unfortunately, after the year 2014, the number of people who go to bed hungry in the world is gradually increasing. The situation in other poor and backward countries of the world, including war-torn Afghanistan, will make the situation of starvation more serious in the coming times.

Food is the foundation of a healthy and happy world
World Food Day is not just a day to remind us of the importance of eating. Nutritious food is the foundation of a healthy and happy world. There is a need to work on food security around the world. In the midst of the Corona epidemic, more than 140 million people worldwide have been deprived of food. This is the situation when a large amount of food items are wasted all over the world. If production starts decreasing then hunger will become a new challenge for the world.