Feeding the 5,000 is a European organization that is tackling hunger in a specific way – using food that would normally be wastes. They work to glean crops from farms that would be wasted also but host public events to bring awareness to this issue
"Feeding the 5000 is a campaign that aims to empower and inspire the global community to enact positive solutions to the global issue of food waste. We work with governments, businesses and civil society at the international level to catalyse change in social attitudes and innovative solutions necessary to tackle food waste at the global scale.
Their most public event is where "5000 members of the public are given a delicious free lunch using only ingredients that otherwise would have been wasted. Held twice in Trafalgar Square (2009 and 2011), replica events have since been held internationally – including in Paris, Amsterdam and Dublin – and will be rolled out worldwide."
See how it went in Brussels in April of this year
Two facts on food waste:
1. There are nearly one billion malnourished people in the world, but the approximately 40 million tons of food wasted by US households, retailers and food services each year would be enough to satisfy the hunger of every one of them .
2. The irrigation water used globally to grow food that is wasted would be enough for the domestic needs (at 200 litres per person per day) of 9 billion people – the number expected on the planet by 2050.