Chris Arsenault

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'Thirty Percent Of World's Food Wasted, New Online Platform Seeks Savings

Enough food to feed 2 billion people is wasted every year, leading U.N. agencies to create a new interactive platform to try to reduce the losses, which could easily feed the world's 800 million hungry.

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'McDonald's Launches Online Campaign To Show Its Food Rots

It's not the kind of fact most food vendors want to showcase, but faced with sluggish demand for its burgers and criticism over preservatives in its products, McDonald's has launched a campaign to prove that its food does, indeed, rot.
'India Sees Brazil As A "Role Model" In Beating Hunger

India has sent a mission to Mars, but maintains the "dubious distinction of being the world capital of malnutrition", a senior Indian official said Wednesday, adding that economic growth alone will not be enough to end hunger.
'Family Farms Produce 80 Percent Of World's Food, Speculators Seek Land

Despite renewed interest in industrial agriculture by investment banks and sovereign wealth funds, more than 80 percent of the world's food is still produced by family farmers.