Abstract
This is a guest editorial by Adelina Voutchkova-Kostal , director of sustainable development at the American Chemical Society, and Jitesh Soares , senior director of scientific advancement at ACS. Hunger has a major impact on a significant fraction of the world’s population: 6 million people die from starvation annually, or approximately 5–11 people per minute, according to Oxfam International. And an estimated 22% of children under 5 had stunted growth in 2020, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. In 2015, the UN set 17 sustainable development goals, one of which is zero hunger, which aims to improve food security and nutrition through sustainable agricultural practices. While food scarcity has always been an unfortunate reality, there has been an alarming shift in recent years. The hunger crisis has been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, the ongoing war in Ukraine, and climate change—which are all converging to
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