As the international meeting point of food sector, 27th Worldfood İstanbul Exhibition was held in TÜYAP Exhibition and Congress Center on September 4-7, 2019. Within the scope of the conference, Mehmet Duman, WALD Chairman of the Executive Board participated in the panel “Tips from Masters - Taste the Future” organized with the collaboration of Culinary Travel Society and combined the food issue with a global perspective.
Mr. Duman emphasized the relationship between food and sustainable development in the panel moderated by Gürkan Boztepe, President of the Culinary Travel Society. Stating that food-induced diseases and fatality cases have reached critical levels while the world is suffering from hunger on one side, and obesity on the other side, Mr. Duman highlighted that starvation and poor nutrition pose an obstacle towards the way to sustainable development.
Stressing that hunger and poor nutrition means struggling to live in an environment where people produce less, but get sick easily, so they earn less income and cannot increase their sources of income, Mr. Duman informed the participants that lack of access to food increases in direct proportion to wastage in rich and developed countries. In addition, he put the devastating image of the status forward with numbers.
Stating that approximately 800 million people sleep hungry in the world, especially including developing countries, Mehmet Duman, WALD Chairman of the Executive Board stated that it is expected this number will increase up to 2 billion people by 2050 and emphasized that local governments have a privileged position to produce sustainable solutions to such problems.
