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 thro...

Today is World Food Day . I'm just about to eat my 3rd meal today. I will not be going to bed hungry. It's shocking to realize that in the UK increasing numbers of people need to use charitable food banks like those organized by the Trussell Trust Globally 1 in 7 or 8 of the world's population suffers hunger. Tearfund tells Ruth's story and has an innovative  idea for one way to help farmers like her who are affected by adverse effects of climate change. Take a look at this short video and if you are in the UK get involved in the campaign.