In our ever growing world, we have come to understand that although we all speak many different languages, there is a common thread amongst us. That would be Food Security. On July 10, 2012, Dupont issued a statement in which CEO Ellen Kullman said:
“To truly address the root cause of hunger, we must have a common path forward to tackle such pressing issues as food affordability, availability, nutritional quality and safety.”
Dupont commissioned the Global Food and Security Index to measure these risks and factors in 105 different countries. This index will help to find areas for improvement. The goal is for collaboration so that real decisions can be made.
Everybody should be able to have affordable food. If everyone comes together a solution to this problem can be determined.
Features of the Global Food and Security Index
Analysis of key findings.
Definition of 25 global indicators that measure specific aspects of food affordability, accessibility, availability, nutritional value and safety.
An interactive heat map of overall scores and detail of category results.
Adjustable weightings to allow for scenario planning.
The ability to compare multiple countries simultaneously and adjust rankings by indicators.
A country details page that allows a food-security drill down into individual economies.
A unique feature will be added to capture the impact of changing food prices on each country’s ability to address food security.
I personally applaud Dupont for taking steps forward on this issue. It is time to stop talking and move forward.
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I work in the food industry and I make the same amount of money as someone in ON. To me, the cost of living is higher in ON then where I am. But, people do not want to pay more for food, so we all get what is the rate of pay that others doing food manufacturing get paid (my co. has three plants in three separate provinces). Some of the jobs, such as cooking mac or making sauce are quite labor intensive jobs (lifting bags of sugar all day long up and down stairs etc) but those two people make the same as everyone else. In the last few months we’ve lost 7 people and no new applications coming in (they go for jobs that pay more obviously as we’re stuck at $14/hr) Even the students we hire quit as they too can make more money in our area.
So my point is, that even though it is nice to think that we want everyone to have cheap food, it does come with a cost to those workers, stuck in min wage jobs.
I agree, wages across the board are out of whack and not just in the food industry. There is a global problem. Hunger being one of the issues. Corporate greed, IMO, has resulted in world issues. Billions of dollars have been wasted and funneled away by leaders in various countries instead of going where it was suppose to. The situation has to be corrected if we are ever to solve the problems that plague even our own democratic country.