Seeker

My post for Blog Action Day is about food #inequality. I've chosen this aspect of inequality because #Blogaction14 coincides with World Food Day .  Does inequality in access to food matter? Yes it does if you believe that every human life is valuable. Yes it does because freedom from hunger is a basic human right. Survival depends on it. It cannot be right that, while obesity is a growing problem for many and one third of food produced for human consumption is lost or wasted every year, 1 in 9 of the world's people live with chronic hunger .  One of the Millennium Declaration targets in 2000 was to halve the number of people who suffer hunger by 2015. Some progress has been made but there is still a long way to go. It is the least powerful who suffer disproportionately: 60% of hungry people are women every year 5 million children under 5 die of malnutrition-related causes 4 in 10 children in poor countries have bodies and brains damaged throu