Alert: Acute food insecurity ‘far too high’ UN agency warns, as 113 million go hungry

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Ethical Markets draws attention to  this joint report from the UN and EU as additional confirmation of the global threats to  food supplies , especially since they are still perilously based on the planet’s dwindling 3% of freshwater .
Yet, as we point out in our annual Green Transition Scoreboard ® 2018 report : ”Capturing CO2 While Improving Human Nutrition & Health“, there are hundreds of nourishing food plant which thrive on saltwater (halophytes), without pesticides, fertilizers  and along with many other indigenous crops, grow wild and are eaten in 22 countries.  These halophyte plants (e.g. quinoa, Salicornia, China’s salt-tolerant rice, and others) can expand the human food supply while conserving precious freshwater .
Furthermore, they are more nutritious, many with complete proteins and minerals needed by humans and only need investments in bringing them to  global markets, and their deep roots are the most efficient way to  capture ambient CO2!  

See also  our TV  program “Investing in Saltwater Agriculture” with NASA chief Scientist Dennis Bushnell. (all at www.ethicalmarkets.com).  This abundant new food supply, along will all the plant-protein food start-ups are disrupting the global agro-chemical industrial complex and its control of today’s monoculture crops: corn, wheat, soy, rice, alfalfa (which is grown to  feed livestock for unhealthy levels of meat diets).
So let’s change the game and Green the Global Food System!
 
~Hazel Henderson, Editor”

Acute food insecurity ‘far too high’ UN agency warns, as 113 million go hungry

Approximately 113 million people in 53 countries experienced high levels of food insecurity last year, according to a new joint UN and European Union (EU) report released on Tuesday, which warns that these crises are primarily driven by conflict and climate-related disasters.