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| 22 Mar 2013 03:40 PM |
What do you plan to do about it Sean?
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| 22 Mar 2013 03:54 PM |
Most of the world’s hungry live in developing countries. According to the latest Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) statistics, there are 870 million hungry people in the world and 98 percent of them are in developing countries. They are distributed like this:
578 million in Asia and the Pacific 239 million in Sub-Saharan Africa 53 million in Latin America and the Caribbean 37 million in the Near East and North Africa
19 million in developed countries
Rural risk
Three-quarters of all hungry people live in rural areas, mainly in the villages of Asia and Africa. Overwhelmingly dependent on agriculture for their food, these populations have no alternative source of income or employment. As a result, they are vulnerable to crises. Many migrate to cities in their search for employment, swelling the ever-expanding populations of shanty towns in developing countries.
Hungry farmers
FAO calculates that around half of the world's hungry people are from smallholder farming communities, surviving off marginal lands prone to natural disasters like drought or flood. Another 20 percent belong to landless families dependent on farming and about 10 percent live in communities whose livelihoods depend on herding, fishing or forest resources.
The remaining 20 percent live in shanty towns on the periphery of the biggest cities in developing countries. The numbers of poor and hungry city dwellers are rising rapidly along with the world's total urban population.
Children
An estimated 146 million children in developing countries are underweight - the result of acute or chronic hunger (Source: The State of the World's Children, UNICEF, 2009). All too often, child hunger is inherited: up to 17 million children are born underweight annually, the result of inadequate nutrition before and during *****.
Women
Women are the world's primary food producers, yet cultural traditions and social structures often mean women are much more affected by hunger and poverty than men. A mother who is stunted or underweight due to an inadequate diet often give birth to low birthweight children.
Around 50 per cent of ***** women in developing countries are iron deficient (source: Unicef). Lack of iron means 315,000 women die annually from hemorrhage at childbirth. As a result, women, and in particular expectant and nursing mothers, often need special or increased intake of food. |
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| 22 Mar 2013 04:00 PM |
This guy is like happycustard and his global warming threads, but this one with hunger.
To be perfectly honest with you, hunger cannot be solved unless everyone is able to OBTAIN and GROW their own foodstuff, NOT BUY food or GIVE MONEY to BUY FOOD - which would be useless in the LONG RUN.
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| 22 Mar 2013 04:14 PM |
THERE IS ENOUGH FOOD IN THE WORLD TODAY FOR EVERYONE TO HAVE THE NOURISHMENT NECESSARY FOR A HEALTHY AND PRODUCTIVE LIFE. But that food needs to get out to the hungry in the world. The WFP does some amazing things that help the world in more ways then one. |
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| 22 Mar 2013 07:43 PM |
| We just need to educate African countries. |
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| 23 Mar 2013 07:54 AM |
| The problem is not that there is not enough food, but that the population is too high. |
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| 23 Mar 2013 01:44 PM |
^ That's an indirect way of saying we don't have enough food.
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| 23 Mar 2013 02:49 PM |
| move stuff and fix problem |
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| 23 Mar 2013 08:29 PM |
guys look. i made food come out of my scab XD |
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| 23 Mar 2013 10:14 PM |
>We just need to educate African countries.
What do they need to be educated about? |
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| 24 Mar 2013 04:29 PM |
We have more then enough food to feed the world. It's just Americans are pigs and want to eat large meals in the Morning, 5 Mins after the morning, Brunch, Lunch, 1 Hour after Lunch, After Lunch Snack, Dinner, Later Dinner Meal, Midnight Snack. That's 9 Eating times per day.
No wonder Africans are angry at Americans.
[-Novus Ordo Seclorum-]
PS, I do in-fact live in the United States of America. I see this everyday. |
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| 08 Nov 2013 05:55 AM |
Hungry people account for less than 13% of the world's population.
It's a good improvement, as it's down from 19% in the 1990's. |
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| 08 Nov 2013 05:56 AM |
"No wonder Africans are angry at Americans."
Why are Africans still stereotyped as starving? There are more starving people in Asia then in Africa, and by a longshot too. |
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| 08 Nov 2013 12:24 PM |
You know this also happens in MEDC's.
Lots of people in the UK are on Food Banks. |
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| 25 Feb 2014 01:40 AM |
| Countries like Uk and AMerica take resources form Africa so maybe Those countries should grow their own food instead of taking it from other countires |
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| 25 Feb 2014 01:42 AM |
| Blame the countries like UK and USA they take rsources from those developing countries and e.t.c |
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| 25 Feb 2014 08:14 AM |
"870 million people in the world do not have enough to eat. This number has fallen by 130 million since 1990, but progress slowed after 2008."
130 million only? I thought there are 2 billion peoples.
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| 25 Feb 2014 08:26 AM |
One out of six children -- roughly 100 million -- in developing countries is underweight. --------------- I am underweight and I eat normally -- I just don't gain weight what is your point. |
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| 25 Feb 2014 08:39 AM |
Okay lets see if would hunger can actually be solved..
We can keep up with the growing food demand according to a study done by the FAO. BUT malnutrition will become an increasing problem. Suggesting that we won't have the ability to get it to everybody and the effective demand in said nations will have a harder time being dealt with [1]. This can attribute to a census that we will have issues dealing food to developing nations.
And this appears to be correct, as our current food production will not be sustainable for the world by 2050 [2]. We also find that though the production of food has increased the per capita rate has decreased [3].
So in fact no it can't be solved without more arable land popping up in developing countries (most of it is in the United States and Europe). As we will need to increase our food production around 90% while it is only going to be ~66% increased in 2050.
1. http://www.globalchange.umich.edu/globalchange2/current/lectures/food_supply/food.htm
2. http://www1.umn.edu/news/news-releases/2013/UR_CONTENT_447180.html
3. https://ag.purdue.edu/agecon/Pages/default.aspx // You'll have to find it on your own I can't give a direct link to the power point. |
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| 25 Feb 2014 08:41 AM |
| Most of the money charity collects doesn't actually go to solving hunger. A country could give up a small percentage of their wealth, and hunger is solved, it's that easy. |
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| 25 Feb 2014 08:48 AM |
Sean, why am I supposed to care? Selflessism is as pirimitive as collectivism
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