In September 2010, FAO released its latest report on hunger, finding that 925 million people are undernourished — 98 million fewer than in 2009. While the lower number is encouraging, it is still unacceptably high — and nowhere near the Millennium Development Goal of halving hunger by 2015. Ghana is the only sub-Saharan African country on course to cut its prevalence of hunger by then.
Globally, the 2010 hunger figure marked a decline of 7.5 percent from the 2009 level. The reduction was mostly concentrated in Asia. FAO estimates that 80 million fewer people were hungry there in 2010. ...
Overall, women and children account for the highest proportion of the chronically hungry. High food prices and lower incomes put poor households at an additional risk of not providing expectant mothers, infants, and children with adequate nutrition. Indeed, more than one third of child deaths worldwide are related to inadequate nutrition.
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Chapter 1: "Charting a New Path to Eliminating Hunger" by Brian Halweil and Danielle Nierenberg
In September 2010, FAO released its latest report on hunger, finding that 925 million people are undernourished — 98 million fewer than in 2009. While the lower number is encouraging, it is still unacceptably high — and nowhere near the Millennium Development Goal of halving hunger by 2015. Ghana is the only sub-Saharan African country on course to cut its prevalence of hunger by then.
ReplyDeleteGlobally, the 2010 hunger figure marked a decline of 7.5 percent from the 2009 level. The reduction was mostly concentrated in Asia. FAO estimates that 80 million fewer people were hungry there in 2010. Gains were much smaller in sub-Saharan Africa, where one third of the population was hungry. Furthermore, the overall number of hungry people in subSaharan Africa has increased over the last decade. In Burundi, Comoros, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Eritrea, chronic hunger affects at least half the population.
Overall, women and children account for the highest proportion of the chronically hungry. High food prices and lower incomes put poor households at an additional risk of not providing expectant mothers, infants, and children with adequate nutrition. Indeed, more than one third of child deaths worldwide are related to inadequate nutrition.
Most of the men and women, usually farmers, who live on less than $1.25 a day are found in rural areas, lacking land tenure, infrastructure, and access to health services or electricity. Increasingly, however, cities are not immune to hunger. In the 1980s and 1990s urbanization increased by 4 percent each year, while poverty levels continued to increase as well. The population of slum dwellers is also growing worldwide—at almost 1 percent each year. Rising food prices during the 2007/08 world food price crisis were especially hard on the urban poor. In Kenya, for example, FAO estimated that 4.1 million urban poor in 2009 were “highly food-insecure” and as many as 7.6 million were unable to meet their daily food needs.
While world food prices have fallen since 2008, they remain well above pre-2007 levels, and the trend continued steadily upward in 2009 and 2010. Many food aid programs have not been able to purchase as much food, and the recession has meant less money for food aid. The U.S. Agency for International Development reported that it was only able to donate.
Dream the Millennium Development Goal of halving hunger by 2015
ReplyDeletewhat is really the problem that causes hunger and poverty around the world? If God exist, can we blame God? it seems the fault of mother natural environment.
Thousands years ago, What did people do when their birthland was dry, hot, not fertile? they leave their birth land and search for new land, fertile land with good weather to settle down their families and prosperous. But now, all the fertile land has been occupied by different nations. The law prohibits such human right, human freedom of free movement.
The Food Aid is the best easy choice for rich nations to pledge their support, but it's not the best solution to eliminate hunger and poverty for poor nations.
Never the less, have a dream and dream in the middle of 21st century, people will witness the Mega Cities of Africa nations, the birth of New African Confederation Stock Market. it's not a surprise but a well planned fact. Believe! believe anything possible.
Private and public joint Global investment in Africa Nations?
Rich countries invest on building the Mega Cities, many factories, low cost of labour
Rich corporations do the trading of import food in exchange export goods, etc...