Social Justice
Social Justice Assignment- Hunger in the Third World
Hunger is a term which is most commonly used to mean the uneasy or painful sensation caused by the want of food. Which is usually linked to malnutrition that indicates lack of some or all nutritional elements necessary for human health. World hunger refers to the chronic shortage of food in a large number of developing countries. According to the most recent statistics, over one billion people are currently suffering from hunger every day, which equals to one sixth of the world’s overall population. An astonishing figure shows that 6 million children under the age of five die every year of hunger or hunger related diseases. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations report of the State of Food Insecurity in the World in 2004, every six seconds a child dies because of hunger and related causes.
World hunger is occurring to 870 millions people in the world and 98 percent of them are in developing countries. Three-quarters of all hungry people live in rural areas, mainly in the villages of Asia and Africa. The percentage of hungry people is highest in east, central and southern Africa. Around three-quarters of undernourished people live in low- income rural areas of developing countries. Of the total number of the 870 million chronically hungry people, over half are in Asia and the Pacific and about a quarter are in Sub-Saharan Africa. Asia and the Pacific region is home to over half the world’s population and nearly two thirds of the world’s hungry people. 65 percent of the world’s hungry live in only seven countries: India, China, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Pakistan and Ethiopia.
The issue is not food shortage in the world, there is enough food available to feed the entire global population of 7 billion people. Although there is no issue in quantity terms, yet still one in seven people are hungry and one in three children are underweight.
Hunger is a term which is most commonly used to mean the uneasy or painful sensation caused by the want of food. Which is usually linked to malnutrition that indicates lack of some or all nutritional elements necessary for human health. World hunger refers to the chronic shortage of food in a large number of developing countries. According to the most recent statistics, over one billion people are currently suffering from hunger every day, which equals to one sixth of the world’s overall population. An astonishing figure shows that 6 million children under the age of five die every year of hunger or hunger related diseases. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations report of the State of Food Insecurity in the World in 2004, every six seconds a child dies because of hunger and related causes.
World hunger is occurring to 870 millions people in the world and 98 percent of them are in developing countries. Three-quarters of all hungry people live in rural areas, mainly in the villages of Asia and Africa. The percentage of hungry people is highest in east, central and southern Africa. Around three-quarters of undernourished people live in low- income rural areas of developing countries. Of the total number of the 870 million chronically hungry people, over half are in Asia and the Pacific and about a quarter are in Sub-Saharan Africa. Asia and the Pacific region is home to over half the world’s population and nearly two thirds of the world’s hungry people. 65 percent of the world’s hungry live in only seven countries: India, China, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Pakistan and Ethiopia.
The issue is not food shortage in the world, there is enough food available to feed the entire global population of 7 billion people. Although there is no issue in quantity terms, yet still one in seven people are hungry and one in three children are underweight.