It’s nothing for most of us to walk into the local supermarket and pick up our weekly household food requirements. In many parts of the world this may not be the case and families starve, this hinders their development. As these developing parts of the world continue to mature it is important that the poverty and hunger come to an end. It is commitments like this from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation that bring significant opportunities to these developing parts of the world.
Complete article – http://www.gatesfoundation.org/GlobalDevelopment/Announcements/Announce-070125.htm
This gets me thinking about the transportation of foods back and forth to different areas of the world on a global scale right down to the transportation of food locally to smaller regions. As I write this what comes to mind is how we need to map and document our food distributions and consumption. As we understand the data better we will see a clear picture as to where we should focus our attention to improve the deliver of foods to various parts of the world. Now I’m not necessarily talking about specialty chocolates and frozen pizza’s, what I am talking about are a determined set of foods that are determined to be critical to health of humanity. In some cases that may mean to open new processing plants or distribution centers and in other cases increase the workload of various farms to grow more fruits or vegetables. Sometimes I get the impression looking down at the whole situation that we are not thinking when it comes to delivery of these foods and in some cases it is more about profitability than sustainability. I am certainly not trying to indicate that the companies that take part in this do it for free. It is understood that there are associated costs.
More to come 2/18/2009
