The Problem Of Hunger By Bill Gates

More than 1 billion people in the world right now are suffering from hunger. Food security is “the access by all people at all times to the food needed for a healthy life,” as defined by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization. There are four points to food security, which are “availability, access, utilization, and stability.” When one or even all these points are missing, it is described as food insecurity. The rise of food prices in 2008 shocked and affected millions of people, many of whom were very poor. Because of the rise of food prices, there were protests and hunger was put at the top of the list, although it did not stay there. Science has to understand how to deal with hunger as the problem grows. Using scientific research and changing policies can have a huge impact on the issue of hunger. Population is

The first article 4 ways to end hunger in Africa from CNN explains almost 800 million do not have enough food to eat daily in Africa. This reason lead Africa to put greater emphasis on agriculture and supporting their farmers. They achieved to a remarkable goal in cutting the malnourish in half since the 1990. The United States has raised it efforts in the commitment to ending global hunger, poverty, and child malnutrition because of all the

Food is a commodity often taken for granted and over 1/9 of people in the world suffer from hunger, especially those in Africa. Hunger is defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as “the uneasy or painful sensation caused by want of food, craving appetite; the want or scarcity of food in a country” ("2015 World Hunger and Poverty Facts”). This problem is often overlooked today as people are unaware of the actual occurrences and effects the lack of food causes and because

Almost all the hungry people, 780 million, live in developing countries, representing 12.9 percent, or one in eight, of the population of developing counties. There are 11 million people undernourished in developed countries. With anticipated impact of global warming and increase in natural disasters such as drought and flooding, food shortages in parts of the world (especially in Asia and Africa) can only increase in scale and severity in view of growing population and poverty indexes.

In the past ten years the world population exceeded six billion people with most of the growth occurring in the poorest, least developed countries in the world. The rapidly increasing population and the quickly declining amount of land are relative and the rate at which hunger is increasing rises with each passing year. We cannot afford to continue to expand our world population at such an alarming rate, for already we are suffering the consequences. Hunger has been a problem for our world for thousands of years. But now that we have the technology and knowledge to stamp it out, time is running short.

Once new crops can be grown plentifully, the problem of child malnutrition can be addressed. Gates states that “malnutrition runs rampant across a continent of farmers, affecting children’s cognitive and physical development.” If one major change could be made to the way Africa is operating it should be one that changes for the children. Every improvement that should be made should be in favor of the next generation because they are the ones who will create success or not.

From 1970 to 1997, humanity was solving the starvation problem worldwide. The amount of hungry people had dropped from 959 million to 791 million, which is a total decrease of 168 million people. This decrease is

To help combat this issue there are a few things that could be done to fight hunger in Ethiopia. Through programs being implemented water could be brought in and the soil could be told so that it could finally be able to be farmed. With proper irrigation systems and training programs implemented Ethiopians could be trained how

Target 2: Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people who suffer from hunger

World hunger has become a disturbing issue as it has affected many people throughout the world. The scarcity of food in countries could mean that there is malnutrition. People in developing countries are the most affected because they do not have stable production of food and they as well do not have the means to improve their current sources. Additionally, individuals in locations that do not have favorable climates for farming are affected adversely. Growth in population causes hunger in that there is the minimal production of food while the people depending on it are many. Urbanization as well is likely to lead to world hunger because the rate of farming that helps produce food in the rural areas are affected as people relocate to the cities. They require labor in the farms becomes affected which as well affects production. Additionally, when people move to the urban areas, they cause instability in the cities as people scramble for the little production of food that comes their way.

Growing up, the commercials of starving children in Africa in need of food because of rampant starvation and the pervasive threat of death have been streaming on various media. World Hunger is one of the main problems that a large portion of the global population faces today. Hunger varies with severity but in this case it is the want of food in a third world country. World hunger is a problem that has existed for much of our known history; it has faded away from central concerns because it is barely brought up in everyday conversations. World hunger has many aggravating factors and principal causes, such as insufficient economic systems, misinformation, climate changes, etc. But the main debilitating factor is poverty as poverty always has led to people going without regular meals because they cannot afford to eat. There are vast quantities of people in third world nations and developing countries such as Kenya, Uganda, and Ethiopia that are so impoverished that are in desperate need for food. Whether a country is rich or poor, there are always tremendous numbers of people dealing with poverty and hunger. Perhaps most disheartening is the cruel reality that most of the victims are young children. Hunger is a very serious issue that cannot easily be remedied.

Food is an essential need for every living creature on earth, food is a way of sharing cultures and traditions with the rest of the world. With the world’s population growing over nine million people by 2050 it will become more difficult to provide every individual with a healthy and nutritional diet (Worldometers.info, 2014). Food security involves increasing the production of food worldwide to meet the needs of every individual as the vast majority of the population are undernourished. More than half a billion people in today’s society are overweight, consuming more than the recommended daily amount of food (Who.int, 2014). While more than 800 million people of the world’s current population are undernourished and underweight (Wfp.org, 2014). For global food security to be achieved, every individual must ensure justice in terms of access to suitable beneficial food for the entire population through equality in distribution. To achieve food security on a global level the world needs to be smarter and fairer through the way food is distributed.

Food not only distinguishes and represents a culture, but can also reflect one 's personality, lifestyle, and socio-economic status. It is the rudiment of mankind and people cannot survive without it. Food crisis is becoming increasingly severe in this days. Every 3.6 seconds, the time it takes you to take a bite of food, a person dies of hunger or malnourishment (Vision). Hunger is a problem that has been around since the beginning of time, but it is everything but yesterday’s issue. It is very real today and the numbers of starving people are still growing. One would think this issue is because that there is not enough food for everyone in the world, but there is more than enough to go around. The global food crisis is unacceptable because it is caused by a number of easily solvable problems. In the near future this is going to be a more dominant critical issues which needs to be addressed and resolved.

The current population in the world in 2016 is 7.2 billion people. In the place that we live, the United States, it is usually quite simple to come by safe and good food. However, in some parts of the world people struggle to find safe food to eat everyday. As the population continues to grow it keeps becoming harder and harder for those areas of the world to find food. Imagine how difficult it will be to find safe food in say, 30 or so years. The predicted population in 2050 is expected to be around 9.6 billion people. Now, that number is significantly large, and as the population of the world rises, so does the problem of world hunger. World hunger is happening today, and in a few years, with almost 2 billion more mouths to feed, world hunger could spiral out of control.

Millions of people die each year, all over the world because of hunger and disease, many of whom are children (Global issues, 2010). Millions of other people suffer because of hunger, many of whom are in Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia. However, there are several thousand tones of food that is wasted every year. This occurs when people through away food, during harvest, during storage and when crop is destroyed by pests, insects, diseases and animals. Food wastage in the poor countries is due to lack of technology and infrastructure and result to as much as quarter of harvest getting lost (Global issues, 2010). According to Global issues (2010), world