According to UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), developing countries waste 40 percent food items, 1.3 billion tons of food is wasted annually all over the world. Almost a billion people are going hungry, out of which one-third are children.While we waste 1/3 of the food we produce. The amount of food waste produced globally each year is more than enough to feed all of the hungry people in the world.
Pakistan is one of the most food insecure countries in the world and is ranked 11th at EXTREME RISK on the food security risk index, 61 Million Pakistanis are food Insecure. Hundreds of people in Pakistan die each year because of malnutrition and various deficiencies. A malnourished woman is at higher risk of giving birth to an anemic or an underweight child.
According to Pakistan Demographic and Health Survey 2012-13, around 45% of children show evidence of chronic malnutrition or stunting and 11% are acutely malnourished requiring urgent treatment. One in every 14 Pakistani children dies before reaching the age of one, and one in 11 do not survive to grow till their fifth birthday, states a report compiled by the office of the federal ombudsman in collaboration with the UNICEF.
Pakistan continues to suffer from as many as 2.5 million children struggling with stunted growth, and more than one million underweight children under the age of five — which is significantly more than the combined number of children in similar conditions in Afghanistan, Yemen, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Papua New Guinea, Iraq, Sudan, DR Congo and Ethiopia. This means our future generation will not only be mentally and physically stunted, but will also be unskilled and lag behind the competing world.
Between 2014 and 2016, 22 percent of the Pakistani population as a whole was undernourished, the equivalent of about 41.4 million hungry people. Pakistan does not need a continuation of the Thar tragedy to acknowledge its millions of children being exposed to high risks. The statistics say it loud and clear: the country’s children are in a grave danger.
Only seven percent of the families in Thar have the ability to buy food while the remaining 93 percent don’t, Eighty per cent of the population in Thar takes loans to buy food which is not repaid for the next four to five years. There is no intervention to break this cycle.
Approximately, 40 percent food prepared at different banquets is wasted when people’s rush towards food and stock up their plates with more food than they can consume. Add to that the trend of preparing 15, 20 or even 25 dishes for a wedding and other banquets and the situation gets worse.
Consequently, people love to taste everything and in that process leave most of the dishes wasted because either they do not like it or something else catches their attention if one gets a chance to visit kitchens of restaurants, then one would be shocked to see the amount of food going into the trash.
we should save food which is being wasted on The Natural Resources Defense Council today launched “Save The Food” waste more food than grocery stores, restaurants or farms. “As it turns out , in Pakistan and all over the world we can’t blame the epidemic of food waste on our kids’ aversion to vegetables. We’re all culprits here, tossing out staggering amounts of food in kitchens nationwide, “but with small steps, we can save large amounts of food and along with it money and precious natural resources the more food we save the more we can share with hungry Americans the more we can reduce climate pollution and the more water won’t to waste 40 percent all food not eaten in Pakistan. Every year a dramatic increase in food waste is witnessed in Muslim countries during month of ramzan because of lavish buffets, excessive grocery shopping and cooking large quantities of food. The aims of our nation is that in restaurants and hotels to prepare limited amounts of food. And edible food to the needy through food drives and charities.in Pakistan enough food is produced to feed the entire population but because of food waste, an estimated 6 out of 10 people go to bed hungry. On the global hunger index out of 118 developing countries, Pakistan is ranked at 107. To add to these alarming statistics, it is estimated that 40 percent of food produced in Pakistan is wasted. Civil society and private sector should also play their part to make it possible” He added that food wastage is a national issue and in our personal capacity, we on a daily basis. Pakistan is a third world country where millions of people, everyday go to bed without having meal. A mother sells her children because of hunger Pakistan is 22.0 percent, and 8.1 percent children die before the age of five due to malnourishment.
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