More than 800 million people worldwide do not have enough to eat ... and 500 million more are overweight.
The global food system is too developed, promotes malnutrition, fails to eradicate hunger and promotes obesity. That is the conclusion heard on the first day of an international conference on nutrition, which opened in Rome on Wednesday at the initiative of the United Nations Food (FAO) and Agriculture the World Health Organization (WHO).
At the forum, the Director General of WHO has questioned the representatives of the 176 countries present at the conference. "Something is wrong" began Margaret Chan in a toneless voice. "Ladies and gentlemen, some of our unbalanced world continue to die of hunger. And another part to obesity crams so much that life expectancy fell again and that health spending reached astronomical sums. "
The head of the World Health Organization also regretted that for some large cities in Africa and Asia, it was cheaper to import than to buy junk food local food production.
If the hunger back for 20 years, malnutrition, it increases, while according to experts at the WHO and the FAO, there are on the planet enough food for everyone to eat properly.
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