World Hunger Rough Draft

World hunger is one of the worst problem we have in the world today, which is consisted of 928 billion people. Hunger is a painful situation caused by the want of food, or craving appetite. Hunger is an unfair problem that a lot of our population suffer from. In this paper I will justify the meaning of world hunger.

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

From a global health perspective, world hunger is the want or scarcity of food in a country and connects to malnutrition, which is the lack of nutritional elements in a diet. When contemplating the question what is the cause of hunger around the world, one might think of factors such as access to food, geographical location, and social status. However, another key element of hunger around the world is

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.

The United States knows that there are a lot of people around the world that are starving and does not get the food they need. The United States can help end world hunger because we all buy thing that we don’t eat and we have the money to help end world hunger. Also, there are more than 1 billion people who are suffering from hunger and altogether the United States can help feed about 95 million people who are hungry. The United States can help end World Hunger. (Banerjee)

World Hunger has become a big problem that's not getting any better. World hunger is a global issue because according to his article “795 million people or one in nine people in the world do not have enough food to eat”(The Hunger Project) This has an effect on everyone from women, men and children all around the World which is most importantly impacting the future of tomorrow. Know that you know World Hunger is a Major issue, I will transition into reasons stating why. First off, One reason people should care about World Hunger is because according to this article “Hunger kills more people each year than AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined. Source: FAO, The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2015” (Stop Hunger Now) This shows that World Hunger is a major issue because it has a bigger effect on people then some of

Imagine having a glimpse of the food or dishes that you are currently craving for. Will you be able to resist the temptation? Or will you be willing to spend your hard-earned money on those delicious food just to fill up what you so called “hunger"?

World hunger has been a constant problem throughout the ages. It is a problem that should be able to be solved easily, yet there are still 1.02 billion undernourished people worldwide. With the world population being 6.7 billion people, and the Earth producing more than enough food for this amount of people, why is it that there are hungry, malnourished people all around the globe?

World hunger is a problem which affects people in the poorest of poor countries as well as countries that prosper such as the United state. Food is something that every life form needs in some way or another; our energy happens to come in the form of calories, Carbohydrates, and lipids or fats. The only way for a person to survive to have an adequate amount of said needs, of which we obtain in nourishing foods. While this is simple to understand, what’s not simple to understand is why 21,000 people a day die due to a lack of food. These people die for two reasons; they don’t have enough food because the food they eat isn’t enough to sustain themselves, but this is not their fault. It is wrong to believe that a person who dies because they do

Global Hunger is the most prevalent issue in the modern world. In much of Asia, Africa and other parts of the developing world, people are malnourished and do not have access to sufficient food. Hunger levels in third-world countries has decreased, however in war affected countries such as Iraq, hunger has increased severely. Malnourishment affects the body all through a person’s life, from the moment they are born to when they are elderly, if they survive that long. Life long hunger can increase mortality rate, stunt growth, increase risk of diseases and mental impairment. World Vision, an organisation that helps third world countries to overcome “poverty and injustice”, has a program called the 40 Hour Famine, where volunteers collect donations and in return give up something that people in impoverished countries do not have such as food, furniture and technology for 40 hours. This year the 40 Hour Famine will held on the 14th to the 16th of August and this year 38,461 people have participated in the event. Through surveys, posters and group involvement in the 40 Hour Famine, I will raise awareness and knowledge about Global Hunger around my school.

“The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization estimates that about 795 million people of the 7.3 billion people in the world, or one in nine, were suffering from chronic undernourishment in 2014-2016” (“2015 World Hunger”). These 795 million people are not only in third-world countries. There are many people in our own nation that go to sleep every night without any food in their stomachs. Most people suffering from hunger live in developing countries while “11 million undernourished people are in developed countries” (“2015 World Hunger”). Another article from the World Hunger Education Service, “Hunger in America: 2015 United States Hunger and Poverty Facts” states that about 14.3 percent of households in America lacked food in

Although these terms have been used for years in discussions about fighting world hunger, this book provides fresh insight into the critical nature of these topics. It also offers practical ideas and plans to address the root causes of hunger and recommendations for resolving the issue once and for all.

The first cause of hunger is poverty. The other causes of poverty include poor people’s lack of resources, unequal income distribution in the world and within specific countries, conflict. This is a major problem in many developing countries where many families are living below the poverty line which deprives them of even buying even the most basic things required for human survival including food or cannot afford the farming supplies they need to grow enough good food of their own. (Winfield, N (2002) Poor Nations denounce US Farm Subsidies, Protectionism Adds to Hunger Critics Say, The Washington Post, E2. In M. Shulman. (2002). Thinking Critically.) Hunger can also be seen as a dimension of extreme poverty and can be referred to as the most critical manifestation of it. Poverty mostly affects rural households as these families do not

While many factors play into world hunger the most common are poverty, environmental overloads, discrimination, armed conflict, lack of clout, and chronic hunger, there are many effects of these factors. Some include increasing deaths, limited access to food supply which leads to malnutrition, and the amount of food waste. All of this can be reversed by using what they need and not buying things and letting it go to waste. Political power also plays a role in world hunger because of developing countries where some food is not easily accessed. In some places environmental overloads cause food growth to decrease. The amount of deaths is alarmingly increasing and world hunger deaths do not only limit to starvation though they go beyond to diseases easy contracted from having low immunity due to hunger. Overall, world hunger has a huge impact on what goes on in the world to and not only limited to these causes. World hunger is a huge problem all around the world and should have more awareness because it affects many people by having a lack of access to food and creates the problem of malnutrition and causes many deaths by starvation.

There are many reasons that may contribute to the cause of world hunger. Historically, the society will continue to change as long as there are people in the world. For what I know, the world had vastly changed from 60 years ago up to now. Whenever I’m with my grandmother, she always told me stories on how accessible and cheap it is to have food in the Philippines during her teenage life. They used to have a small pond where there are tilapia and various crops, vegetables and fruits in their backyard. This scenery was common in each household even