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🌾 The Hunger Paradox

Last night, 828 million people went to bed hungry. That is one in every ten people alive on Earth — and the number is rising for the first time in decades. At the same moment, an average British family throws away £800 worth of perfectly edible food every year. In California, farmers bulldozed millions of kilograms of almonds in 2022 because supermarkets rejected them for being the wrong shape. Meanwhile, in Ethiopia, smallholder farmers who grow coffee for £4 lattes in London earn less than £1.50 for every kilogram they produce.

But here is the sharpest paradox of all: the world currently produces enough food calories to feed 10 billion people — roughly 2 billion more than exist right now. Food insecurity is not a production problem. It is a distribution, access, and power problem. Understanding that distinction is the most important thing you can do for your exam answers on this topic.

A combine harvester on a large commercial farm beside a family hoeing crops by hand on a small subsistence farm, with icons for climate, water availability, pests and disease, and rising demand, which all affect food supply

Figure 1: Commercial and subsistence farming, and four factors that affect how much food is produced

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