The Dangers Of Hunger And Malnutrition

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PROBLEM:
Food security is said to be attained when “all people are able to access enough safe and nutritious food to meet their requirements for a healthy life”. However, food security is challenged by various factors across production and consumption. Food production, trade, the environmental impact of agriculture, the threat of climate change, and the factors that affect food prices are all largely global in nature – there is no single solution that any one country can enact to ensure access to affordable, sustainable, safe and nutritious food for all.
Various countries are facing the burden of hunger and undernutrition/malnutrition. Tackling hunger is one of the greatest challenges of the times. Hunger is triggered by multiple
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Climate change will only make things worse as elevated levels of CO2 reduce the nutritional content of grains, tubers and legumes, affecting key nutrients such as zinc and iron. The estimated impact of undernutrition on gross domestic product (GDP) is 11% every year – more than the annual economic downturn caused by the global financial crisis. A growing population means more mouths to feed.

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ANALYSIS:
About 2 billion of the global population of over 7 billion are food insecure because they fall short of one or several of Food and Agriculture Organization’s dimensions of food security. Enormous geographic differences in the prevalence of hunger exist worldwide.
Globally, one in nine people in the world today (795 million) are undernourished. The clear majority of the world’s hungry people live in developing countries, where 12.9 per cent of the population is undernourished. Asia is the continent with the most hungry people – two thirds of the total. The percentage in southern Asia has fallen in recent years but in western Asia it has increased slightly. Southern Asia faces the greatest hunger burden, with about 281 million undernourished people. In sub-Saharan Africa, projections for the 2014-2016 period indicate a rate of undernourishment of almost 23 per cent. Poor
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