Fwd: Food Waste Enough to Feed World ’s Hungry Four Times Over

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Food
Waste Enough to Feed World’s Hungry Four Times Over
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The United Nations is continuing to fight a relentless battle to eradicate
extreme hunger – particularly in the world’s poorest nations—by 2030. But
it is battling against severe odds: an estimated 800 million people still
live in hunger--- amidst a warning that the world needs to produce at ... *
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