Food cooperatives, innovative nutrition programs, targeted giving – all take a bite out of this planet’s most persistent problem: hidden hunger. That’s the premise behind today’s World Food Day.
Each day some 1 billion people go to bed hungry, something World Food Day USA labels “the greatest atrocity of our time.” In this country, and across the world, organizations are out to change the trajectory of hunger, to ameliorate malnutrition.
That’s what they’re doing in the Texas Hunger Initiative, where the organization is partnering with the United States Department of Agriculture to find ways to boost food security.
In the Bahamas a trio of agriculture cooperatives has been set up to help small farmers become more productive. This co-op theme is key to the efforts of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization. The aim is to turn backyards into productive plots of land, one at a time.
Don’t rely on the UN or other organizations to do all the heavy lifting. Now’s the time to put your money where your mouth is and make a difference.
You know that tip you leave at the end of a good meal? Match it with a similar donation to an anti-hunger group of your choice. Search out local food co-ops, local like-minded organizations that help promote urban gardens. Step-by-step, individual-by-individual all this can add up, add up to a planet where hunger and malnutrition are in retreat.
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