2023-09-29 18:00:00
More than 61% of the boys and girls in our country do not have the food necessary for healthy physical development, according to the latest report from the Social Debt Observatory in Argentina of the Universidad Católica Argentina. At the same time, 16 million tons of food are lost and wasted per year, which represents more than 12% of national agri-food production, details a report from the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries of the Nation (2015).
In this context, next September 29th marks Food Loss and Waste Awareness Day.s. The objective of this date established by the UN General Assembly is to reflect on the paradox of hunger in a context of food waste and on the climate consequences of this problem to make visible actions and organizations that generate positive changes.
One of them is the Argentine Network of Food Banks, which has been working for 19 years rescuing food suitable for human consumption at each stage of its production chain.a, which avoids losses during its production, storage or processing stage, and waste in its distribution and consumption stages. It currently collaborates with more than 4,000 social organizations that receive more than 900,000 people, of which 67% are children and adolescents under 17 years of age.
For Santiago Ramos, president of the Network, “eradicating hunger, food waste and avoiding the climate crisis is not a utopia, it is a decision”. The organization managed to unite 20 banks distributed in 15 Argentine provinces and connected, through The Global Foodbanking Network, with a global network present in 50 countries.
To learn more regarding their work, know how to add your contribution and discover all the projects of the Argentine Network of Food Banks, you can visit their website.
This content was originally published in RED/ACCION and is republished as part of the ‘Human Journalism’ program, an alliance for quality journalism between RÍO NEGRO and RED/ACCION
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