Hunger in a country with enough food is a crisis of distribution

Hunger in a country with enough food is a crisis of distribution

One in five households is uncertain where its next meal will come from, while almost three million children regularly go to bed hungry. One in three deaths among children under five is linked to severe acute malnutrition. Yet South Africa produces enough food to feed its population. About 10.3-million tonnes of edible food, equivalent to 34% of local production, is wasted annually, costing the economy R61.5-billion, or 2.1% of GDP. The contradic…