What is the cause of global food insecurity? ...

[tiara099]

What is the cause of global food insecurity?

Question 2

What recovery methods are used by food recovery programs such as Feeding America (formerly America's Second Harvest) to minimize the loss of edible food each year?

[brittrenee]

Answer to Question 1

Diminished local, not world, food supply; could be a result of a number of circumstances such as crop failures, political unrest, lack of land, urbanization, population growth, gender inequalitites, access to water, and/or natural disaster.

Answer to Question 2

 Field gleaning  gathering up leftover crops from farmers' fields after harvest
 Food rescue  collecting donated perishable foods from a number of sources, e.g., grocery stores, gardens, restaurants, college campus, hotels, caterers, etc.
 Non-perishable food collection  collecting canned or boxed food from retailers

[tiara099]

Great answer, keep it coming

[strudel15]

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