World Hunger Research Paper

After reading the extensive “The New Face of Hunger” (Tracie McMillan), my eyes became more open to the overall issue of hunger, faced by many people today. In a few words, I was absolutely shocked by the true meaning and examples provided of what exactly food insecurity is. Honestly speaking, when I hear the word “hunger” I think of a human who has no food, living on the streets. “The New Face of hunger” brought to my attention that food insecurity is much more than simply having no food. In fact, “In 2006 the U.S. government replaced “hunger” with the term “food insecure” to describe any household where, sometime during the previous year, people didn’t have enough food to eat” (The New Face of Hunger). Not only was I able to see the harsh

As we are going to work to pay our bills or going to school to get our education, there are people in different countries struggling to even find food for their family. Some kids are left to survive without their parents. According to the Lost Boys video, “They waited and hoped that things would eventually get better” I strongly believe that we need to help these people recover from everything that they have gone through.

The Oxford Dictionary defines 'hunger' as 'a feeling of discomfort or weakness caused by lack of food, coupled with the desire to eat'1. World hunger, however, takes this definition and brings it to a global scale. Internationally, there is an estimated 850 million people that don't have enough food to lead a healthy lifestyle. While this number has gone down by 100 million in the last decade2, it is still the worlds leading health risk and the poor nutrition that comes with it is still the cause of death for nearly 3.1 million children under the age of 5 each year3. Thankfully, there are organisations that work to end world hunger. However, this leads me to my focus question

Many people might believe that global famine exists nowadays just in extremely poor places of the world and in not so high levels when indeed local level famines have erupted in Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia and parts of Latin America. Some 795 million people in the world do not have enough food to lead a healthy active life. That is about one in nine people on earth and the vast majority of the world's hungry people live in developing countries, where 12.9 percent of the population is undernourished. Which is even sadder is to think that actually the amounts of food to help solve this situation exists around the world and instead of been designated to contribute with the cause it is thrown to garbage. “40% percent of the food that is produced

What is Hunger? Think of the time when someone complains about being hungry, and your stomach growls and is in pain for food. Envision going through life not knowing where and when next meal will come. World Hunger has taken over society in many ways with its harmful effect on the people and the world. We have to find a way to end the world hunger.

This brings up the most important point, What is the government doing about poverty in America. They run many programs through many departments. Some of these programs include Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, Food Stamps, Housing, and Unemployment. But all these programs are running and we still have a 12.1% poverty rate. Is the federal government doing enough for this 12.1%, No. This stat was taken in 2002 and we have had another recession since then and poverty is higher now than it was 30 years ago. We have pretty much overturned everything LBJ did in his war on poverty. Big companies are not helping either by outsourcing jobs that these poverty line American’s could perform. And government is thinking they are helping by raising the minimum

At this moment there are approximately 842 million people worldwide that are hungry. This is about 1 of every 8th person you see. That’s over 2.5 times the population of the United States. In 2012, more than 18,000 children younger than 5 died every day; most from preventable causes. It’s estimated that nearly 8,000 of these deaths were tied to hunger. That’s about one every 10 seconds. Most of these kids died not from starvation, but from malnutrition. Malnutrition means going too long without the right kind of food. Eating just enough to stay alive had weakened their bodies so much that disease could come through and strike the final blow. In 2014, approximately 49 million Americans Struggled with Hunger, and continue to struggle each and every day.

Knowing that the world produces enough food to feed everyone, it is illogical that hunger has been one of the major problems throughout human history affecting and killing 8.2 million people each year. “Every 10 seconds a human being dies from hunger.”(Cogan) It is thought that this mostly happens in undeveloped countries but surprisingly “about 98% of the 842 million people starving actually live in developing countries” (Cogan). A long time ago, these terms were related to the lower social classes. It sounds logical that poverty is the principal cause of hunger but it’s not only in that direction. If these terms were contexted to the modern world, people with few economical resources would not have enough money to feed their whole family, thinking that this way poverty leads to hunger, but let’s get out of the bubble. People leave school to work and strive for a brighter future in order to gain enough money to feed their family and themselves. “1.2 billion of them live off of $1.25 a day” (Cogan) and yes, they sometimes accomplish feeding their families but they have no idea that this is a vicious cycle.

What we should do, if anything, to relieve the suffering of others is at the forefront of many issues. Two of which I have written about for this course; animal rights and humanitarian aid. The latter is more relevant to the discussion of world hunger, not only because humanitarian aid can take the form of food, but also because unlike the question of animal rights humanitarian aid and world hunger are most often issues of what we should do as opposed to what we shouldn’t do. This discussion can take place in one of two empirical scenarios; we have lots of food and have the ability to distribute it; or we do not have lots of food and thus cannot distribute it. The latter is demonstrably not true; I have food in my kitchen right now that will probably go bad before I eat it or I wouldn’t miss if I didn’t have it. The same is probably true of most people who have a reliable source of income in developed countries. Furthermore, I am surrounded by restaurants and grocery stores all of which not only have food but have enough food to allow me to be picky. The problem is not with the supply of food but what form it takes and to whom it goes.

Food can either give life or take it away . “One in seven people go hungry and one third of food is wasted”(Food Aid Foundation). We don’t think about how we have it or how lucky we are to have access to it. That’s because we don’t live somewhere where we have to worry about food shortages. We don’t have to worry about drought or famine. Some think that because it’s not happening here that we don’t need to bat an eye about it , but we can’t just ignore it. I never realized how lucky I am to have a financially stable family who buys and cooks food for me. Not until I started seeing things on the news or seeing it in school. It doesn’t even have to be all the way in Africa , there are people who live here in the United States of America that don’t get enough food just because they can’t afford it. Telling ourselves “ They just don’t try hard enough” is not going to make the problem go away. Just because it’s not happening to us doesn’t mean we shouldn’t do something about it . The question is; If we turn a blind eye is it the same thing as killing them? James Rachels, a philosopher, says “By giving money to support famine relief efforts, each of us could save at least some of them. By not giving, we let them die.”(“Killing and Starving to Death”.Philosophy.pg 208). We might not have the knife , but we gave it to someone else. Growing up I never really realized how different everybodies lives were , I just assumed that they were the same. As I got older, I

There are people all across the world who are struggling with hunger.  Approximately seven hundred and ninety five million people suffer from this issue.  This is approximately one-ninth of the entire world’s population that is directly affected by hunger.  These people are in third world countries, but there are also people in developed countries like the United States that are going hungry as well. Initially, when most people think about someone that is starving, they visualize someone who is very skinny with their bones almost visible just under the skin.  Although this visual image is sometimes accurate, there are people who are undernourished that do not fit this stereotype.  Furthermore, hunger can cause many health concerns that are not as easy to identify by just looking at an individual.  Hunger is a major problem throughout the world and some of its long term effects include stunted growth,  development of poor cognitive abilities, and poor overall health.  These effects are devastating and often times irreversible.

World hunger is defined as the want or scarcity of food on a global level. Approximately 795 million people world-wide suffer from chronic malnourishment and nearly all of them live in developing countries (2016 World Hunger and Poverty Facts and Statistics, 2016). The numbers are shocking and humanitarian food aid is required to save the millions of men, women, and children that are at risk of death from starvation. There are three primary types of aid; program aid or in-kind-aid, relief or emergency food aid, and project food aid.

One of the world's biggest problems, world hunger needs to change (BE4). There are many reasons why I would want to change world hunger. One reason why I want to get rid of world hunger is that millions of people don’t have food. These people might get one meal a day or go to bed hungry or not get the recommended 2,100 calories a day (SC5). There are 795 million people worldwide that do not have enough food for a healthy life. The majority of the hungry people lives in developing countries, such as Southern Africa, Malaysia, Lebanon, where 12.9% of the population is not nourished, but people in our community, also, go hungry (SC4). World Hunger is not something that just happens in undeveloped countries: it happens everywhere (SC3). About one in eight children who are under twelve that live in the United States will go to bed hungry every night. New Mexico and Mississippi, Nevada and Arizona, Georgia and Alabama are the top states in America with the highest hunger rates (SC6). Food prices, climate change, and natural

Hunger is a conflict that many countries are having to deal with. People from all around the world have to suffer from lack of food or a disease caused from hunger. It is our job to put a stop to it for good.

In a world overflowing with riches, it is an outrageous scandal that more than 826 million people suffer hunger and malnutrition and that every year over 36 million die of starvation and related causes. We must take urgent action now.”