Hunger

Hunger and Starvation a part of our world…

Starvation is just one of the many different kinds of plaugues that the world faces today. The only problem is that this should not be a plague. This world can fix so many of its problems if we would stop fighting and decided to save the next generation so that man will not go extinct. I hope that people would start to see past their selfish desires and see that people need help. We need to get out there and play an active part in helping bring the humans of this world back to a place where every man has the nourishment that he/she needs. So many people can report on these things and no one pays attention. I hope that the world would open its eyes and relieve the pain that we are suffereing.

"The world wakes up when we see images on the TV and when we see children dying," Mr Egeland told the BBC's World Today programme.

"We have received more pledges in the past week than we have in six months. But it is too late for some of these children."

The slow response has greatly increased the cost of dealing with the crisis, aid workers say.

"The funding needs are sky-rocketing because it's a matter of saving lives," UN World Food Programme Niger representative Gian Carlo Cirri said.

"The pity is we designed a preventative strategy early enough, but we didn't have the chance to implement it."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4698943.stm

The world produces enough food to feed everyone. World agriculture produces 17 percent more calories per person today than it did 30 years ago, despite 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 (Food and Agriculture Organization 2002, FAO 1998). The principal problem is that many people in the world do not have sufficient land to grow, or income to purchase, enough food.

http://www.worldhunger.org/articles/Learn/world%20hunger%20facts%202002.htm

Malnutrition