We produce enough food to feed 10 billion people. So why does hunger still exist? | by Jeremy Erdman | Medium

We waste more food than you think…

4 min read Feb 2, 2018 -- This is the second article of seventeen exploring the challenges of each of the United Nation’s Seventeen Sustainable Development Goals. Today, 795 million people are hungry. Another 2 billion are expected to join them by 2050. However, global food production is incredibly efficient. The world’s farmers produce enough food to feed 1.5x the global population. That’s enough to feed 10 billion (we are at 7.6 billion currently). Despite this excess, hunger still exists. How is that possible? Goal 2: End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and…

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