With the world's population expected to grow to 7.2 billion by 2016, Ban said, the food problem will only grow if the world doesn't act now.
He even offers a solution to the food problem: airlines should stop serving hot inflight meals and let passengers package their own selections from a cold buffet in the airport before boarding.
That should help them get a better handle on just how widespread the food poisoning problem is, and how to prevent it.
The fourth occasion was on July 16, 1996, a day that saw six Indian tourists killed in Kashmir, a U.S. diplomat stabbed in Egypt and a widening food poisoning problem in Japan.
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Research published this week by Mari Gallagher, an independent food researcher, suggests that the problem of food deserts may be relatively tractable.
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Allowing officials to purchase food closer to problem areas would feed an additional 17 million people a year, the report says.
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Now a team of doctors is trying for the first time to work out the scale of the food-inhaling problem among stroke patients.
The underlying factors that cause food losses and waste are significantly different when comparing industrialised countries (where food waste and overeating is the bigger problem) and developing countries (where food losses and undernourishment are more extensive).
For industrializing nations in the first half of the twentieth century, food was the fundamental problem.
In stark contrast to this crisis, is the exponential growth of another problem, food waste.
The British Retail Consortium argues the government is tackling the problem of food waste in the wrong way.
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The massive global problem of food waste has received more attention in recent years, and the figures are staggering.
Baroness McIntosh of Hudnall made the remark during oral questions in the Lords on 20 March 2012, as peers discussed ways to tackle the problem of food waste.
Mr. JEAN: The problem with the food distribution is basically they have to do late at night.
The charity said it had seen food poverty becoming a growing problem among the poorer communities in Hull.
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Food inflation - it's been the problem, and so there'll be some money, we hope, in food stamps.
As the world's human population grows, so will the problem of the global food supply.
Lines weren't a problem at the branded food stands like Big Mario's Pizza and Noah's Famous Rolled Pretzels.
In other words, the problem of too much food and too little exercise.
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But many economists now worry that the problem runs deeper than food.
Many of these new approaches move beyond the now-traditional problem of the diversion of food crops to produce fuel.
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There is an environmental problem in terms of the food system we have.
Rising volatile foods prices have also been a problem, one that other food companies like Kraft Foods Group, Kellogg and Coca-Cola have faced.
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The problem is, to avoid food poisoning, you must cook your burger or chicken to a high enough temperature to kill E. coli and other gut-wrenching bugs.
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