Don't waste our food--Foodbank network

Source: Foodbank network
            Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Global hunger map

Hunger touches every community, every nation, and every region of the world.

• Worldwide more than 925 million people do not have enough to eat. That means one in seven people are suffering from hunger.[1]
• Hunger and malnutrition are the number one risk to health worldwide. Each year the death toll exceeds that of AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis combined. [2]
• Every day, nearly 16,000 children die from hunger-related causes. That's one child every five seconds. [3]
• Approximately 60% of the chronically hungry are women, and one-fifth are under the age of five. [4]

[1] The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2010, FAO
[2] World Food Program, 2011
[3] United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, Nov. 17, 2009
[4] World Food Programme, 2011

One Billion Hungry and More Than a Billion Tons of Food Wasted

• Every year, consumers in rich countries waste almost as much food (222 million tonnes) as the entire net food production of sub-Saharan Africa (230 million tonnes)
• The amount of food lost or wasted every year is equivalent to more than half of the world’s annual cereals crop (2.3 billion tonnes in 2009/2010)
• Per capita waste by consumers is between 95 and115 kg a year in Europe and North America, while consumers in sub-Saharan Africa and South and Southeast Asia each throw away only 6 to11 kg a year.