We cannot continue to allow millions to go hungry while tonnes of perfectly good food end up in landfills every year.
![Canned food is seen inside the Walworth County Food Pantry as rural hunger rises due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in Elkhorn, Wisconsin, US, October 17, 2020 [Bing Guan/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/RTX85CJT-2.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
We cannot continue to allow millions to go hungry while tonnes of perfectly good food end up in landfills every year.
Investing in localised initiatives to mitigate drought can help the continent to break the cyclic nature of disasters.