patterns of food production and consumption

What is undernutrition?

Both protein energy malnutrition, a lack of calories and protein

What is micronutrient deficiency?

Vitamin and mineral deficiency

How many people were obese in 2023?

2.6 billion adults overweight or obese

What is undernourishment?

Most common expression of malnutrition

How much farmland do Europe, North America and Australasia have?

Enough farmland to provide the food they need with significant surplus to export

What do half of LDEs lack?

Sufficient farmland and technology to be self sufficient but are too poor to import.

How much food is wasted globally?

A third of all food produced.

Was the millenium development goal to halve proportion of hungry people met?

2015 millenium development goal almost met

What happened to undernourishment stats during Covid?

Number of undernourished increased by 150 million

What does nutrition fundamentally determine?

Capacity to work, quality of life, susceptibility to illness and capacity for recovery.

What percentage of adults were overweight in 2023?

38%, 41 million children under 5 either overweight or obese.

What are causes of obesity?

Eating too many calories and not getting sufficient physical activity, global increased intake of energy dense foods, increase in physical inactivity due to an increasingly sedentary nature of many forms of work and leisure activities.

What was the UK sugar tax?

2018 tax on sugary drinks to prevent cases of obesity amongst school age children.