{"id":5930,"date":"2019-10-15T09:35:21","date_gmt":"2019-10-15T06:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=5930"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:36","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:36","slug":"stop-the-waste-un-food-agencies-call-for-action-to-reduce-global-hunger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/10\/15\/stop-the-waste-un-food-agencies-call-for-action-to-reduce-global-hunger\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop The Waste: UN Food Agencies Call For Action To Reduce Global Hunger"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By UN\nNews<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHow can we&nbsp;allow food to be thrown away when more\nthan 820 million people in the world continue to go hungry every day?\u201d,\nasked&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fao.org\/home\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">FAO<\/a>&nbsp;Director-General\nQu Dongyu in the foreword to his agency\u2019s report.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The study contains fresh estimates of the scale of the\nproblem, enabling a better understanding of the challenge, and suggesting\npossible solutions, by looking into why, and where, loss and waste take place.\nThe FAO makes a distinction between food losses, which occur at the stage when\nfood is harvested, up until the moment when it is sold; and food waste, which\noccurs during the sale and consumption of food. <a href=\"https:\/\/news.un.org\/en\/story\/2019\/10\/1049181\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By UN News \u201cHow can we&nbsp;allow food to be thrown away when more than 820 million people in the world continue to go hungry every day?\u201d, asked&nbsp;FAO&nbsp;Director-General Qu Dongyu in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5931,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}