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The Challenge of Hunger The Challenge of Hunger Hunger is the most extreme manifestation of poverty and arguably the most morally unacceptable. In the globalized
an adequate and reliable source of food for this amount of people is going to be a challenge. The argument that hunger is a complex socioeconomic phenomenon, tied
world demand and the world hunger. The world population is predicted to be way higher than nowadays. It is going to double up the population of now. Facing such serious
the developed world's best interests to quit their exploitation efforts and seek to meet the hunger challenge. When a society is faced with an absence of basic needs,
was determined to decrease poverty and hunger in September of 2000. The UN also contributed to the cause with the World Summit of 2005 which took on the challenge
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The Challenge of Hunger
Hunger is the most extreme manifestation of poverty and arguably the most morally unacceptable. In the globalized world of the 21st century, with more than enough food produced to feed all of its 6 billion inhabitants, there are still over 800 million poor suffering from chronic undernourishment (which is more than the entire population of Latin America or Sub-Saharan Africa). According to the recent estimate of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), in 1999-2001 there were 842 million undernourished people in the world, including 798 million in developing countries, 34 million in countries with transition economies, and 10 million in high-income countries. See Figure 6.5 for the regional distribution of hunger and Data Table 2 for the shares of undernourished adults1 and malnourished children2 in individual countries. Note that three-quarters of the world’s hungry people live in rural areas and the majority of the hungry are women.
Particularly disturbing is the recent dynamics of world hunger. During the first half of the 1990s the number of undernourished people decreased by 37 million, but over the next 5 years it increased by more than 18 million. The numbers of undernourished have fallen in East Asia and Pacific, but remain high in South Asia and continue to rise in Sub-Saharan Africa and in the Middle East and North Africa. In India, after a decline of 20 million between 1990-1992 and 1995-1997, the number of undernourished climbed by 19 million over the following four years. And in China, where the number of undernourished people was reduced by 58 million over the 1990s, progress is gradually slowing. In countries with transition economies the second half of the 1990s brought another increase in the number of undernourished people, from 25 million to 34 million.
On the surface, the causes of hunger appear to be multiple and to differ among countries. Many hungry people live in...
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