Overfed and underfed: global food extremes by Joseph Chamie.
Chamie’s paper draws attention to the twin challenges the world at this moment is faced with- acute hunger and obesity, and writes – “The two food extremes — chronic undernourishment and obesity — are worldwide challenges, impacting the wellbeing of more than one-fifth of humanity. Widespread chronic undernourishment, especially in Africa and Asia, has resulted in increased levels of misery, child wasting/stunting, morbidity and premature mortality.
Many have concluded that the current food shortages encompassing approximately one billion people constitute the largest humanitarian crisis since the end of World War II.”
Efforts are being channelled towards solving this crisis, but “two critical questions concerning undernourishment and obesity remain largely unanswered. What to do when millions of people, not able to grow or buy sufficient food, become chronically undernourished? What to do when millions of people put on so much weight that they become obese?”.
So, what do you think of these issue?
See full write up here: http://www.thedailystar.net/perspective/overfed-and-underfed-global-food-extremes-1422997