Food for the Future
{OUR ANSWER TO WORLD HUNGER}
Hunger was and is an important part of the Millenium Development Goals (MDG), which is a list of 15 goals, drafted by the United Nations (UN), and were proposed to be completed by 2015. The goal was to “Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people who suffer from hunger” (United Nations)
The following quote highlights the severity and pertinence of the hunger problem in the world right now.
“Approximately 870 million people in the world do not eat enough to be healthy. That means that one in every eight people on Earth goes to bed hungry each night.” (World Food Programme, 2013)
Overpopulation
Before looking at strategies, we should first take a look at the push and pull factors of poverty. The rising global population, as seen in Figure 1, looks set to only increase in the future, to groundbreaking levels. Overpopulation with it brings overconsumption, and dwindling resources, all of which will probably penalize the less developed countries more.
WORLD HUNGER TODAY - Current Situation
What this means to us is that there is still a long way to go for the MDG to be achieved. The issue of hunger is especially worse in less developed countries, where 3 in every 5 children below 5 years of age die due to under-nutrition (World Food Programme, 2013).
Furthermore, this is an issue that will definitely get worse if nothing is done to address it. It has been assessed that
“By 2050, climate change and erratic weather patterns could have pushed another 24 million children into hunger. Almost half of these children would be in sub-Saharan Africa. (World Food Programme, 2013)”
This highlights the startling reality of the situation, and the urgency of the required action.
The above diagram depicts how the undernnourished is globally distributed, based on 2009 statistics. It also expresses the graveness of the situation.
Reproduced from : http-//www.jm.undp.org/millenium-development-goals/ja-progress-toward-the-mdgs
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