What do you think about when someone says world hunger? When we look at the words, world hunger, we see more than just a problem, we see a major issue for the world as a whole. The Word hunger, is derived from three terms. Webster mainly defines hunger as, "The uneasy or painful sensation caused by the want or craving for food." This being said we see hunger in the USA as a small ordeal. When our belly rumble we tend to go to a vending machine, or McDonalds, or our favorite eating diner. However, world hunger is a big issue, where there is no simply trip to a vending machine or McDonalds solutions. Not only does world hunger affect a large amount of the world and the children, but there are even more cases where this hunger can lead to many dangerous things such as death.
One of the causes to world hunger is poverty; poverty is economy problems like poor housing, poor health care, low wage paying jobs, and Etc. The definition of poverty is the act of being poor. Poverty is caused by the government when the world is in debt with each other and this is why we have poverty and people are starving all around the world.
According to research, droughts are now the single most common cause of food shortages in the world. In 2011 World Food Programme states recurrent drought caused crop failures and heavy livestock losses in parts of Ethiopia, Somalia and Kenya.It takes a while for communities like these to fully recover and some cane face up to months or years of hardship.
World Hunger The persistence of hunger in a world of plenty is immoral. In a world of 5 billion people, more than 1 billion are desperately poor and face food insecurity. 800 million are chronically malnourished. Every day, 35,000 children under age five (14 million a year) die of malnutrition and related preventable diseases. Millions more become blind, retarded or suffer other disabilities that impair functioning for lack of vitamins and minerals (micro-nutrients), robbing the human community of valuable gifts and talents. Hunger increases pressures that lead to a growing tide of refugees and migrants. Hunger and poverty are at the base of much political turmoil and armed conflict.
Niger and Sierra Leone, the two poorest countries in the world only have a GDP of around 500 dollars per capita. Which, compared to Canada’s 27,000 dollars per capita, is considerably low. In the 48 poorest countries, an average of 2$ a day is made by each working person. Imagine living off 2$ a day in Canada, you couldn’t even buy a Big Mac and a drink for 2$. This is making starvation a very serious problem in 3rd-world countries, not to mention their low immune systems, used for preventing disease, not working right from the lack of nutrition.
World hunger is one among many problems faced in this world today. About twenty-four thousand children under five die every day. Even though there is a lot of food in the world, some people in the world cannot reach these foods because they are poor. About one tenth of the world population is suffering from chronic hunger every year. Because of the hunger problem, majority of the people suffer from blindness, anemia, malnutrition related problems and other diseases because they are not getting enough
When the topic of world hunger is broached, the majority of people’s minds will automatically equate the two words with an impossible-to-solve problem affecting only Africa. However, to make that connection is inaccurate, and ultimately damaging to the actual efforts being made towards eradicating hunger. There are more than 870 million individuals in the world who suffer from chronic undernourishment, with the majority of undernourished individuals residing in Asia or the Pacific. While Africa understandably rises to the forefront of the mind when hunger is discussed, the statistics prove that hunger permeates into a plethora of regions, and affects a wide range of countries, cultures, and age groups. Despite its wide reach, global hunger is a solvable problem. The fact that a solution has not yet been implemented speaks loudly to the lack of cooperation being exhibited throughout the world. There is more than enough food to end world hunger; it is merely a lack of proactivity and cooperation among those in power that continues to allow the problem to grow. Solving world hunger may seem to be a daunting task, but a solution is within reach as long as a more cohesive semblance of cooperation throughout the globe (including both developed and developing countries) is achieved. This cooperation would embrace the sharing of excess goods to countries in need of them, as well the establishment of sustainable agricultural systems in countries currently lacking them—goals which are only achievable through recognition of the problem and an increased involvement by the entire globe.
Another factor that impacts world hunger is war and conflict (2014). Conflicts often disrupt a country’s farming and food production. Often times funds are used to fund the war, rather than help the farmers out. People may also be forced to flee their home because of fighting, thus leaving their farmland untended and unprotected. Sometimes it’s not the people’s fault for hunger. Soldiers are known to with hold food so their opponents submit to them. They also destroy local markets by destroying food and livestock (2014).
Nutrients are absorbed by consuming food. A well balanced diet contributes to better development, higher quality of life and a better health (Gibney et al. 2009). Undernutrition causes hunger, decreases mental and physical performance and lowers the immune system (Gibney et al. 2009). Overnutrition leads to obesity which is associated with a wide variety of diseases (Gibney et al. 2009). Malnutrition is often due to undernutrition of micronutrients and overnutrition of macronutrients and has the negative effects of both under- and overnutrition (Gibney et al. 2009). Students are most likely to suffer from malnutrition.
from crisis to sustainability, we tackle the direct and underlying causes of hunger through integrated, holistic solutions” (Action Against Hunger (2018). The purpose, to reiterate, is to basically search and target specific communities where there is poor nutrition, specifically those communities who have had a recent disaster or tragedy.
Malnourishment occurs everywhere in the world but is most often found in less developed countries. This is because people there rarely think about malnutrition. Malnutrition remains a largely ignored problem that affects a quarter of the world’s children, global hunger afflicts nearly a billion people worldwide. Every year at least 1 million people die from malnutrition in over 40 countries of the world. A study that was conducted says that 300 children die every hour because of malnutrition, with woman and children being the most vulnerable and worst affected. Not only is malnutrition fatal on its own, it causes people to be more vulnerable to fatal diseases such as malaria and HIV/AIDS. If malnutrition does not cause death, it causes stunted growth among millions of people. The main root causes for malnutrition is conflict, decision-making powers, education, environmental factors, illness, inequities, gender, poverty and urban-rural differences.
Hunger and poverty have been a major problem in the world, which has being leading most people to death than cancer, Ebola, and malaria do. More than thousands of people die from hunger and poverty, and most of the people who suffer most are children below the age of ten. Hunger and poverty have contributed to the world food crisis that has an impact on the economy, the environment, and political issues. People living with hunger and poverty are more than those living a successful life in both developed and developing the world. Hunger makes victims live underweight, causing numerous of sickness to their health. Lack of
Every morning when I wake up the first thought in my mind is usually: FOOD! I often lie in bed for a few extra minutes, planning out what I am going to eat for breakfast. Seldom as I go through this routine do I stop to think about those who are less fortunate than me. I often take for granted that everyone wakes up and eats breakfast. But this is far from true, not everyone shares the luxuries that we have in the United States. Some people wake up and wonder if they will eat at all that day, let alone eat breakfast. Why? Because food, like many other things, is unequally distributed throughout the world.