Farmer’s markets featuring locally grown foods are making a comeback in developed countries, as consumers rediscover the pleasures of heirloom fruits and vegetables and lesser-known varieties of grains and legumes. Farmers in developing countries are also recovering traditional crops that were disappearing, and people are learning to bring these foods back into their diets.
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If there’s just one thing you have to do to end hunger, it’s to realize that there could never be just one thing we need to do.
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Descriptions of extreme poverty often highlight how little money the poor have to spend each day. We’re told that more than a billion people live on the equivalent of less than one US dollar per day. One of the Millennium Development Goals is to reduce by half the number of people living on less than $1.25 a day.
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Even in today’s tech-savvy world, some of the latest technical innovations for hunger reduction can prompt a double-take.
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Your generation could be the one that sees hunger disappear.
The statistic of 868 million hungry could fall steadily down to zero in your lifetime. If governments and civil society groups reinforce their commitment to ending hunger – and not just fighting it – hunger could be over very soon.
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