“Anadhanam provides a digital platform to connect stakeholders in surplus food recycling”
While the food wastage in on a constant rise, the hunger hotspots with thousands of people to be fed are also increasing exponentially. Solving this nation-wide hunger could be as simple as carrying out efficient redistribution of excess food. The total amount of the food wasted every year could easily feed over four times the 795 million people who are hungry. Although the efforts by NGOs and other such organizations steadily increasing, it is nowhere getting close to addressing this issue to the required magnitude.
There are 820 million hungry people in the world today!
9.6% of the global population living in poverty (less than $1.90 a day)
1.3 billion tonnes of food is wasted every year around the world, which represents one third of global food production.
The total amount of wasted food generated every year could feed more than four times the 820 million poor people who go hungry.
Economic cost of wasted food is ~ 1 trillion US Dollars /year.
The environmental cost of one meal - whether eaten or thrown out To deliver one meal to one person requires.