By: Hanna Steiner
World hunger
World Hunger Numbers
Every day too many men and women
The United Nations Food and Agriculture across the globe struggle to feed their
Organization estimates that "about 795
million people of the 7.3 billion people in children a nutritious meal. In a world
the world, or one in nine, were suering where we produce enough food to feed
from chronic undernourishment in everyone, 795 million people (one in
2014-2016."(UNFA) Almost all the hungry nine) still go to bed on an empty
people, 780 million, live in developing
countries. "12.9 percent, or one in eight, of stomach each night. Even more (one in
the population of developing counties." three) suffer from some form of
States Action Against Hunger Organization. malnutrition.
(AAHO) There are 11 million people
undernourished in developed countries.
Rising hunger and malnutrition is one of
the great challenges of our time. Not
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enough or the wrong food cause
suffering and poor health, they also
"The vast majority of hungry people live in slow progress in many other areas of
developing regions, which saw a 42
development like education and
percent reduction in the current
undernourished people between 199092 employment.
and 201214." (Rise Against Hunger)
Despite this progress, about one in eight
people, of the overall population, remain
chronically undernourished in these
regions. As the most populous region in
the world, Asia is home to two out of three
of the worlds undernourished people.
2015 was the end of the monitoring period
for the two internationally agreed targets
for hunger reduction. The target for the
Millennium Development Goals for
developing countries as a whole was "to
split in half the proportion of hungry people
by 2015 from the base year(s) of 1990-2, or
from 23.2% to 11.6%." (MDG) As the
proportions have been becoming more
equal. The overall goal has almost been
met. East Asia, South East Asia, Latin
America, and the Caribbean regions have
met the goal.
There are big obstacles in the way of the zero hunger
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cause for moral outrage and concerted action.
What you should know
about World Hunger
- By 2050, climate change and erratic weather
patterns will have pushed another 24 million
children into hunger. (New York Times)
- "More than a billion people live on less than
$1.25 a day, which totals to $8.75 a week.
This means that people in poverty can only
Main Cause of World Hunger spend $455 a year, whereas the average
American spends $7,852 a year on food
Poverty is the main cause of hunger in the world. This alone. This low amount of $1.25 a day could
is true in rich and poor countries alike. It is true no not even buy you one gallon of milk at market
matter whether people live in urban or rural areas. price."(Global Hunger Index)
"Most people who are hungry are living in extreme
- Hunger is number one on the list of the
poverty, defined as income of $1.25 per day or less."
worlds top 10 health risks. It kills more
Stated the World Hunger Association. (WHA) The
largest group of people in the world in people every
year than
extreme poverty are smallholder farmers
AIDS, malaria
in developing countries. They do not
have the land to grow enough food to and
tuberculosis
supply themselves with enough to eat
"66 million primary school-age year round, and they earn so little income
combined.
(Global Hunger
children attend classes hungry from what they sell that they cannot
aord to purchase food from other
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across the developing world." sources once their own supply runs out.
- World Food Programme
