Food Nationalism and Turkey

Hunger problems around the world are deepening and increasing. Today, 854 million people live at the brink of starvation—one in every seven people is hungry. By 2050, the world population is expected to approach 10 billion. With the rapid population growth, the drastic increase in food inflation will make access to food more difficult. This means a worsening of the current global hunger crisis. In contrast to the reality of hunger, there are 887 million obese people and 1.778 billion people who are overweight worldwide. Even though access to food is becoming more difficult day by day, 1.3 billion tons of food are wasted every year. In this study, countries experiencing hunger, obesity, and food waste, the effects of their economic structures, the causes of hunger, and the food nationalism arising from global problems are examined through a literature review method.