Since 2019, the number of people facing acute food insecurity has soared—from 135 million to 345 million. In 2022, 50 million people in 45 countries were teetering on the edge of famine. Whatever the virtues of our modern food system may be, eliminating global hunger is clearly not one of them. More than 30 percent of the food we grow is wasted, left to rot in warehouses or tossed out by finicky consumers who decided they didn’t like the sauce on their pasta.
