What do you do with the rest?

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800 million people go to bed hungry every night, discarded food wastes us $ 940 million a year, and food dumps are the number 3 cause of greenhouse gas emissions in the world - so why do we throw more than a third of food in the trash just because it's not good or because we are fed up? All over the world they are now trying to make a difference, even at the Olympics. food produced in the world is not eaten at all because it is spoiled during production or transfer or thrown in the trash by stores and consumers. On the other hand, according to UN data almost 800 million people go to bed hungry every night. The problem became so severe that cutting global food waste by half by 2030 was included in the list of global development goals adopted by world leaders in 2015. Some experts say that this trend may be the answer to the mountains of wasted food that are created every day. Equoevento for example has so far distributed 200,000 meals from food collected from about 400 events. Experts say that reducing wasted food is not only a moral obligation but also a way to reduce gas emissions in our warming world, emissions that are linked to agriculture, which is responsible for about 20% of greenhouse gas emissions as a whole. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations has calculated and concluded that wasted food is the third largest factor in the world in greenhouse gas emissions if treated as a country in its own right. Brian Lipinski of the World Resource Institute says the approach of using such sporadic initiatives in conjunction with official countries' food waste policies is necessary to achieve a significant reduction in food waste. "The impact of one of these organizations may be small in itself, but it's really one of the only ways to deal with this waste right now," he says. He said it was time to stop focusing on how to produce more food for the world's growing population, and focus instead on efforts to reduce food waste. What do you think about that? That we focus on transferring the food we have to institutions and poor people or expanding the world food market so that there is no shortage of hungry people in the country?