DENPASAR, Bali (BPN) – Scholars of Sustenance highlighted the fastest available climate impacts from immediate Excess Food Rescue at the Atlantic Council’s G20 Global Food Security Forum.
Food insecurity is rising as a result of both short-term disruptions such as the COVID-19 pandemic and the Ukraine war, as well as long-term issues like climate change and ongoing conflict.
Scholars of Sustenance (SOS), the largest food rescue non-profit in South-East Asia spoke at the Atlantic Council’s Global Food Security Forum Day 2 in Bali, Indonesia held on November 13, 2022, at Sofitel Nusa Dua on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Bali.
In “The state of global food security: From farm to fork”, the panel was discussing the primary current challenges to global food security and the solution to addressing the challenges.
Laksmi Parvita from Bayer stated private sector’s view on the problem, it’s very important that we empower the smallholder farmers, we give them access to technology, the most—if possible, the most advanced technology as fast as possible to the smallholder farmers so that they can get all the opportunity, the best opportunity they can have to produce more food.
Bo H Holmgreen, the Founder of SOS, was addressing the problem from his experience in running the largest food rescue non-profit in South-East Asia that was created to optimize the food supplies in addressing food insecurity and food waste.
Analyzing farm to fork concept, and viewing it that the best place that we could have the biggest impact on food security and the fastest right now is by going when it falls off the fork – food waste.
The food waste problem is enormous and adding to that we have to address the distribution problem.
“We are 8 billion inhabitants of this globe, we every day make enough food for 10+ billion, yet one billion of us go to bed hungry every night. We simply have a distribution problem! We at SOS aim at our principles of a future with Food Equity, where access to good nutrition is less about money in hand, and more about desperation and need.”
“By saving the incredible food waste and making sure this good nutrition goes into stomachs rather than landfills, SOS believes in quick impacts on the environment and people,” said Bo H Holmgreen.
Bo H. Holmgreen stated in the Global Food Security Council panel, governments must step up to the plate.
The conference concluded with an appearance by Indonesian President Joko Widodo, who accepted the Atlantic Council Global Citizen Award bestowed upon him earlier this year.
The President of Atlantic Council Frederick Kempe shows support and appreciation towards SOS’s impact in the food security sector and took time to take a picture with the SOS team in front of SOS cool chain technology trucks where SOS trucks alone during COVID have served 3 million nutritious meals to help counter the virus in Bali.
Since its inception 6 years ago, the hardworking SOS staff in three countries have provided over 25 million meals, and as the post-COVID world is recovering, SOS looks forward to obtaining much more excess foods, thereby reducing CO2 from the landfills.
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