We cannot continue to allow millions to go hungry while tonnes of perfectly good food end up in landfills every year.
![Canned food is seen inside the Walworth County Food Pantry as rural hunger rises due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in Elkhorn, Wisconsin, US, October 17, 2020 [Bing Guan/Reuters]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/RTX85CJT-2.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
We cannot continue to allow millions to go hungry while tonnes of perfectly good food end up in landfills every year.
![Canned food is seen inside the Walworth County Food Pantry as rural hunger rises due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in Elkhorn, Wisconsin, US, October 17, 2020 [Bing Guan/Reuters]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/RTX85CJT-2.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Investing in localised initiatives to mitigate drought can help the continent to break the cyclic nature of disasters.
