Today’s “Word of the Day” is “pressing“ and it is an adjective meaning “urgent, critical, crucial, serious, desparate, important, key, vital, high-priority, burning, essential”.
Example Sentence: Food loss and waste represent one of the most pressing challenges to sustainable global food systems. According to the estimates of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), 13% of food produced globally is lost before it reaches the retail stage, while an additional 19% is wasted at the retail, food service, and household levels. This results in 32% of global food production being discarded. In a world where more than 700 million people suffer from hunger, this scale of waste is unacceptable.
This word is present in India must put the lid on colossal food loss and waste and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Hindu
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