World Hunger: A Global Crisis

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World Hunger A Global Crisis

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Effects Of Global Hunger Crisis

• Over 9 million people die worldwide each year
  because of hunger and malnutrition. 5 million are
  children.
• Approximately 1.2 billion people suffer from
  hunger
• Some 2 to 2.5 billion people have micronutrient
  deficiency

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Causes Of Global Hunger

• Food wastage is high
• In the United Kingdom, a shocking 30-40 of all
  food is never eaten
• In the last decade the amount of food British
  people threw into the bin went up by 15
• Overall, approximately 38 billion US dollars
  worth of food is thrown away, every year.
• In the US 40-50 of all food ready for harvest
  never gets eaten
• The impacts of this waste is not just financial.
  Environmentally this leads to
• Wasteful use of chemicals such as fertilizers and
  pesticides
• More fuel used for transportation
• More rotting food, creating more methane one of
  the most harmful greenhouse gases that
  contributes to climate change.

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More Causes Of Hunger

• The direct medical cost of hunger and
  malnutrition is estimated at 30 billion each
  year.
• Diversion of land use to non-productive use
• Increasing emphasis on export-oriented
  agriculture
• Inefficient agricultural practices

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Even More Causes Of Hunger

• Famine
• Drought
• Over-fishing
• Poor crop yield

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Armed Conflicts and Their Effects On Global Hunger

• Hunger is often used as a weapon
• Food shortages and famine are used to starve
  enemies into submission
• Farming is reduced because of direct attacks
• In addition, land-mining and well-poisoning make
  food and water inedible

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The Worlds Reaction To Hunger

• The UNs Millennium Development Goals seek to
  reduce the percentage of hungry people by half by
  the year 2015
• In 2002 the U.S. spends 379 billion on military
  spending
• In the same year the U.S. spends a mere 1
  billion on global hunger

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How To End Global Hunger

• Share existing food, production technology, and
  water and land resources
• with developing countries. Pressure your
  political leaders to pursue policies that promote
  global cooperation.
• Lobby the U.S. government to remove agriculture
  subsidies. Designed to help U.S. farmers with
  globally traded crops like wheat and corn,
  subsidies depress global prices, holding down the
  incomes of farmers in developing countries or
  even driving them out of business. Poor countries
  can make a strong argument that the developed
  world is intentionally preventing the creation of
  a level playing field.

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What Else Can Be Done?

• Support increased funding of global-assistance
  programs. The United States uses only a tiny
  fraction of its money (less than one-half of one
  percent of the gross domestic product) for
  overseas food assistance. The nation could easily
  double or triple this figure without suffering
  economic harm.
• Understand the impact that meat consumption has
  on the world food supply. Meat production is a
  biologically inefficient process the amount of
  meat produced is infinitely smaller than the
  amount of feed grain the animals consume. Eating
  meat elevates consumption of scarce resources and
  increases pressure on the world food supply. The
  majority of meat is consumed by developed
  nations.

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What Is Being Done?

• There are many hundreds of organizations across
  the globe working to make the current global
  hunger situation better for the millions of
  people affected.
• One such organization is called the World Food
  Programme
• This organization is lead by the U.N. and spends
  several hundreds of millions of dollars annually
  to fight world hunger

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What Can You Do?

• Join one of the many organizations for helping
  with the hunger crisis
• World Vision Child Sponsorship
• Donations to many different groups, U.N. included

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Bibliography

• Shah, Anup. "Causes Of Hunger Are Related To
  Poverty." 06 July 2008. 28 Feb. 2009
  lthttp//www.globalissues.org/article/7/causes-of-h
  unger-are-related-to-povertygt.
• Lappe, Frances. "World Hunger." 1998. 28 Feb.
  2009 lthttp//www.worldhunger.org/articles/books/la
  ppe.htmgt.