Hunger in the third world

Done by: Majed Mohammed Ali 10B

Hunger is a term which has three meanings:

The painful feeling caused by want of food; craving appetite. Also the exhausted condition caused by want of food.

The want or lack of food in a country. A strong desire or craving.

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization estimate that almost 870 million persons of the 7.1 billion people on the planet, or one in eight, were experiencing constant starvation in 2010-2012. Practically all the hungry people, 852 million, live in creating nations. There are 16 million people starving in some countries.

Current estimates suggest that there are approximately 870 million hungry people in the world. This lack is not because of insufficient food production. Lack in a world of plenty is a basic foundation for investments that reduce hunger and under nutrition. Latin America and the Caribbean likewise made progression, falling from 65 million hungry in 1990-1992 to 49 million in 2010-2012, while the generality of hunger dipped from 14.6 percent to 8.3 percent. Anyhow the rate of advancement has decreased as of late.The amount of hungry grew in Africa over the period, from 175 million to 239 million, with almost 20 million included in the last few years. Almost one in four are hungry.

Children and hunger

Kids are the most obvious victims of below nutrition. Children who are inadequately fed suffer up to 160 days of sickness every year. Poor nutrition assumes a part in any event a large percentage of the 10.9 million teenagers passing every year. Under nutrition increases the impact of each sickness, including measles and jungle fever. The evaluated extents of passing in which under nutrition is a hidden reason are generally comparative for looseness of the bowels (61%), jungle fever (57%), pneumonia (52%), and measles (45%). Unhealthiness can likewise be brought about sickness, for example, the diseases that cause looseness of the intestines, by decreasing the body's capacity to change over nutrition into usable supplements.

Does the world produce enough food to feed everyone?

The world produces enough food to feed everyone. World agriculture

produces 17 percent more calories per person today than it did 30 years ago, even with a 70 percent population increase. This is enough to provide everyone in the world with at least 2,720 kilocalories (kcal) per person per day according to the most recent estimate. The main problem is that many people in the world do not have enough land to grow, or income to purchase, enough food.

What are the causes of hunger?

Poverty is the main cause of hunger. The causes of poverty include poor people's shortage of resources, unable income supply in the world and within specific countries. 2005 statistics says, the World Bank has estimated that there were a likely 1,345 million poor people in developing countries who live on $1.25 a day or less. Extreme poverty remains a disturbing problem in the world’s developing regions. Progress in poverty decrease has been concentrated in Asia, some improvement occurring in China the statement that poverty is the main cause of hunger is correct.

F acts about hunger in the third world:

1. 13.1 percent of the world’s population is hungry. That’s approximately 925 million people who go weak on a daily basis, consuming less than the recommended 2,100 calories a day.

2. The world produces enough food to feed all 7 billion people who live in it, but those who go hungry either do not have land to grow food or money to purchase it.

3. Almost 1 in every 15 children in developing countries dies from hunger.

4. Poverty is the main cause of hunger, and hunger is a cause of poverty. When people go starving, they lose brain functionality and the mental resources to be a productive asset in society or earn money.

5. In 2010, an estimated 7.6 million children — more than 20,000 a day — died from hunger.

6. Nearly 98 percent of worldwide hunger exists in underdeveloped countries. Hunger is often passed from mother to child. Each year, 17 million children are born underweight because their mothers are malnourished.

7. Almost 1 in every 15 children in developing countries dies from hunger.

8. While hunger exists worldwide, 62.4 percent of the hunger exists in Asia/South Pacific.

9. More than 20 percent of children in Asia and Africa are underweight for their age.

10. When a mother is starving during pregnancy, the baby is often born thin, too. Every year, 17 million children are born this

way due to a mother’s lack of nutrition before and during pregnancy.

11. Similarly, women in hunger are so lacking of basic nutrients (like iron) that 315,000 die during childbirth from losing blood every year.

12. In the developing world, more than 1.4 billion people currently live below the international poverty line, earning less than $1.25 per day.3

13. 60 percent of the world’s hungry are women.14. 50 percent of pregnant women in developing countries lack

proper maternal care, resulting in 240,000 motherly deaths yearly from childbirth.

15. 1 out of 6 infants are born with a low birth weight in developing countries.

16. Poor nutrition causes nearly half (45%) of deaths in children under five – 3.1 million children each year. That is 8,500 children per day.

17. A third of all childhood death in sub-Saharan Africa is caused by hunger.

18. 66 million primary school-age children attend classes hungry across the developing world, with 23 million in Africa alone.

19. Every 10 seconds, a child dies from hunger-related diseases.20. 52 percent of people living with HIV/AIDS are women.21. 88 percent of all children and 60 percent of all women living

with HIV are in sub-Saharan Africa.22. 6.9 million Children died in 2011 each year, 19,000 a day,

mostly from needless health issues such as malaria, and pneumonia.

23. 1.7 billion People lack access to clean water.24. 12 percent of the world’s population uses 85 percent of its

water and none of the 12 percent lives in developing countries.

In conclusion, we should help many countries in order to decrease the amount of people that starve to death. And also teach people how to grow their own food to also decrease the amount of hunger in the world.

Resourceshttp://thp.org/knowledge-center/know-your-world-facts-about-hunger-poverty/http://www.worldhunger.org/articles/Learn/world%20hunger%20facts%202002.htmhttps://www.dosomething.org/actnow/tipsandtools/11-facts-about-world-hungerhttp://www.twnside.org.sg/title/1875-cn.htm