Ending hunger: all of us have the potential to be food heroes – The National

Ending hunger: all of us have the potential to be food heroes – The National

This year’s World Food Day finds us at a critical moment. The Covid-19 pandemic remains a global challenge, causing untold losses and hardship. The affects of the climate crisis are all around us. Crops have gone up in flames. Homes have been washed away. Lives and livelihoods have been thrown into turmoil due to conflict and other humanitarian emergencies. Global food security challenges have not been this severe for years.

Yet in the midst of all this, there is an encouraging new momentum as we strive to overhaul the ways in which our food is produced, stored, distributed and consumed. We have started confronting the problems and making the structures more fit for purpose.

Last month’s UN Food Systems Summit convened by the UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, mapped out the broad outlines of how the world needs to move forward to transform agri-food systems.