This World Pulses Day, A Well-Fed World is thrilled to be accepted as an official partner of the Beans Is How campaign, a United Nations initiative to double global consumption of beans (as well as peas, lentils and other pulses) by 2028. Beans Is How is a project of the UN’s SDG2 Advocacy Hub, which […]
We Need a Plant-Based Food System to Feed the World
In order to feed a growing global population, the United Nations has projected we will need to produce at least 50% more food by 2050 without using any more land. At the same time, we will need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture by two-thirds in order to meet the minimum climate targets to […]
Feed vs. Food: How Farming Animals Fuels Hunger
Have you ever heard the claim that 86% of animal feed is inedible to humans? This statistic is often used to imply that animal farming merely uses the waste from farming human food. However, the research behind this figure shows the opposite: animal feed competes with food security. Let’s break it down: Byproducts and crop […]
Holiday Gifting Got Your Goat? Don’t Have a Cow. Don’t Send One, Either.
The holiday season is here, which means many of us are aswirl in festive decorations, joyful songs, gift-giving ideas, and of course, advertisements luring us in for lots and lots of shopping. Yet as the COVID pandemic continues to threaten our global health and economic stability and the ongoing climate crisis wreaks havoc around the […]
Why We Need Plant-Based Approaches to Global Hunger
The holiday season is officially upon us, and groups like Heifer International and OxFam are ramping up their “animal gifting” donation campaigns with a deluge of catalogs and emails encouraging people to “gift” farmed animals to food insecure families in developing countries. But animal agriculture is a leading contributor to climate change and food insecurity. Here’s why efforts to reduce global hunger should focus on sustainable plant-based approaches wherever possible.
7 Ways Plants Are Fighting Global Hunger
Animal agriculture is a major driver of climate change and food insecurity. Efforts to reduce hunger should focus on sustainable plant-based approaches wherever possible. Here’s why and how.
Scarcity vs. Distribution
This page examines the food “scarcity vs distribution” debate with particular focus on the benefits of plant-rich diets. Overview Global hunger and food insecurity are frequently oversimplified as being primarily a problem of scarcity (not enough food) or a problem of distribution (not enough access to food). More accurately, hunger and food insecurity result from […]