In many parts of the world bugs are consumed as a healthy delicacy. Slimy, creepy critters already form part of the daily diet of at least 2 billion people worldwide. Prepared correctly, eating insects can be a delicious and nutritious food source. Now you probably enjoy a cheeseburger as much as the next
People suffering from hunger in the world have dropped, registering a decrease of 10 million people, moving from 805 to 795 million people over the last 2 years. Data are even more significant due to the fact that between 1990 and 1992 the number of hungry people exceeded 1 billion. The new figures
800 million people practice urban agriculture worldwide. According to the Fao, almost a billion people grow plants and raise livestock within and around cities. This is a practice that promotes healthy food access to low-income people and helps them save money on groceries, yet it is illegal in many countries of the world. The
Soil provides us with our livelihoods and protection. The United Nations declared it the protagonist of 2015 in order to spotlight risks threatening it.
Entomophagy, a diet consisting of insects, is a practice at which Westeners look with disgust. Yet, it is not the same in many regions of the world, including Mexico, Japan and Australia, where insects don’t represent a food taboo, but rather a tasty and high-in-protein alternative to meat. According to Maurizio Paoletti of the
Half of global food production, about two billion tonnes, is wasted, even though a large amount is still edible. This was revealed in a report conducted by the British Institution of Mechanical Engineers in January 2013. One of the major causes of food waste are the bad habits of millions of people, who don’t
