The study, which was a result of more than two years of collaboration between 37 experts from 16 countries, said more than 820 million people have insufficient food and many more consume an unhealthy diet that contributes to premature death and morbidity. Also, global food production, which is based on people’s eating habits, is the biggest way humans are pressuring the Earth, threatening local ecosystems and the stability of the Earth system. The human cost of our faulty food systems is that almost 1 billion people are hungry, and almost 2 billion people are eating too much wrong food, added the 47-page report.
— source downtoearth.org.in | 17 Jan 2019