Waste and deprivation

In Greece, there is enough food for all, the European Union offers hundreds of millions of euros in aid, several organizations and civil society groups provide their services and yet there is a high degree of poverty, hunger and insecurity. This simple presentation of things reveals many bitter truths. The biggest one being that with the resources available much more could be done to spare people the danger of hunger, to save more food and use funds that are wasted.

This reality, along with proposals for improvements, were laid out in a report by the Foundation for Economic and Industrial Research (IOBE), titled "The Food Bank: A way to deal with food poverty and the waste of foodstuffs in Greece," which was made public last week. It noted that the crisis doubled the number of people in Greece in danger of "food insecurity" or "food poverty" (who cannot ensure access to...