Other programs at the organization train unemployed people for work in the food service industry, upgrade equipment at food banks, and collect donated transportation for food delivery. Overall, the network of more than 200 regional food banks and food-rescue organizations distributes food and grocery products to some 50,000 local charitable hunger-relief agencies, including food pantries, soup kitchens, women's shelters, and other organizations that provide emergency food assistance.Īmerica's Second Harvest also operates several national programs that address hunger among disaster victims, needy children, and other individuals. America's Second Harvest records the items donated to food banks and generates reports for donors' records. The donations consist primarily of surplus food that might otherwise go to waste. The organization solicits donated food and grocery products from the nation's growers, manufacturers, distributors, and retailers in order to distribute it to hungry people across America. Nearly half (47 percent) live in rural or suburban areas, 39 percent are children under the age of seventeen, and 11 percent are seniors over the age of sixty-five. According to a major report from the organization - Hunger in America 2001, 39 percent of the 23.3 million Americans served each year by the network are from households with working individuals. The food assistance reaches more than 23 million hungry Americans, including nine million children and 2.5 million seniors.Īmerica's Second Harvest defines hunger as the inability to purchase enough food to meet basic nutritional needs. The organization's network has grown to include more than 200 regional food banks and food-rescue programs in all fifty states that together distribute one billion pounds of donated food and grocery products annually. This season, significant area expansion and the expectation of higher yields will help Brazil produce an estimated record of 9 million tonnes of wheat, according to government forecasts.To feed hungry people by soliciting and distributing food and grocery products through a nationwide network of certified affiliate food banks and food-rescue programs and to educate the public about the nature of and solutions to the problem of hunger in America.įounded in 1979, America's Second Harvest distributed 2.5 million pounds of food through a network of thirteen food banks during its first year of operation. Planting of a second crop in Rio Grande do Sul state with wheat, and expanding Brazil’s wheat frontier to the Cerrado biome, are key output growth drivers, Moretti said.īut Moretti could not comment on the experiment with GMO wheat in Central Brazil, as preliminary test results are not yet available, and more time is necessary to determine success or failure.īrazil requires between 12 million and 13 million tonnes of wheat in a year, Moretti said based on current domestic consumption estimates. This happened and is still happening today.” “We adapted plants and animals to tropical conditions. “We have transformed the Cerrado biome,” Moretti said during a panel discussion earlier on Tuesday. In that region, the use of biotechnology boosted Brazil’s soybean and corn output exponentially, putting its tropical farmers among the world’s most efficient. The tests with GMO wheat are taking place in the Cerrado biome, which is drier and hotter than traditional wheat areas.
Speaking on the sidelines of an international conference, Moretti’s remarks come as Embrapa tests a drought-resistant genetically modified wheat plant - and underscore how the experiment is still at a very early stage. Brazil’s goal to produce all of the wheat it needs in the space of 10 years does not factor in use of transgenic plants, Celso Moretti, head of agricultural research agency Embrapa, told Reuters on Tuesday.
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