26$ per year to end hunger in the world
The cost of ending hunger globally is less than the value of wasted food only in the US, and orders of magnitude smaller than the Wall Street bailout. "The world only needs 30 billion dollars a year to eradicate the scourge of hunger." FAO Newsroom. 2008 "14-15 per cent of United States edible food is untouched or unopened, amounting to $43 billion worth of discarded, but edible, food". Wikipedia quoting a study by the University of Arizona in 2004 ...