Food Security | Food Security Center

Could coronavirus be a food insecurity issue?

Governments all over the world are educating people on how they can avoid COVID-19 by staying home, when at the same time, millions of people such as low-income seniors, smallholders and family farmers, cannot afford staying away from the “field” for even one day.

Fishing communities in Mozambique, give us valuable lessons regarding sustainability and food security.

This has nothing to do with vegans or vegetarians. It is actually a matter of sustainability with many aspects. Today, we will focus just on one of these: Water!

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Agriculture

Can our planet feed us all? What are the challenges that we are facing as far as agriculture is concerned? Studies, reports, facts and info are giving us an idea...

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Livestock

60% of the mammals that are currently living on earth are livestock (mainly cattle and pigs), 36% are humans, and 4% of the living mammals on the planet are wild animals.

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Fish & Sea Life

300 years of whaling industry have led us to an 80% decline as far as life in the oceans is concerned. And this is only a small part of what is happening in our seas...

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Biodiversity

0.01% of all the world’s inhabitants (a.k.a. humans) have caused the loss of 83% of all wild animals and 50% of all plants, since civilization was established.

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Food Waste & Loss

Did you know that almost a billion people are going hungry, while we waste

1/3 of food we produce? The life of a product is longer than we think and ugly produce tastes as good as the pretty one!

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Sustainable Eating

Our choices as far as our nutrition is concerned may have a major impact on our planet. Yes, we can promote sustainability starting from our plates by improving our diet.

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