HUNGER, a desire or a need for food. : an uneasy feeling or weakened condition resulting from lack of food. : a strong desire : craving. a hunger for food,. hunger adjective
Ending world hunger is one of the greatest challenges of our times. Across the globe, up to 828 million people do not have enough food and 49 million people are facing emergency levels of hunger. Indeed, parts of the world may be close to or are already in the grip of famine.
The consequence of diets poor in vitamins, minerals and other nutrients are affecting the health and life prospects of millions more, and casting a shadow over the future of communities and entire countries.
Ending hunger in the developing nations: The elimination of hunger and food insecurity on the world ,a collective responsibility of all of us
Although enough food is produced to feed everyone on this planet, the goal of a world with zero hunger, as set out in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and specifically in Sustainable Development Goal
the remains hugely challenging due to a toxic cocktail of conflict, climate change, disasters and structural poverty and inequality.
Over the past two years, the socioeconomic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic have further exacerbated global hunger by pushing millions of vulnerable people into greater food insecurity and driving up the costs of reaching people in need.
WFP works on various activities in seeking solutions to hunger.
In politics, humanitarian aid, and the social sciences, hunger is defined as a condition in which a person does not have the physical or financial capability to eat sufficient food to meet basic nutritional needs for a sustained period
In the field of hunger relief, the term hunger is used in a sense that goes beyond the common desire for food that all humans experience, also known as an appetite.
The most extreme form of hunger, when malnutrition is widespread, and when people have started dying of starvation through lack of access to sufficient, nutritious food, leads to a declaration of famine.
Throughout history, portions of the world's population have often suffered sustained periods of hunger. In many cases, hunger resulted from food supply disruptions caused by war, plagues, or adverse weather. In the decades
following World War II, technological progress and enhanced political cooperation suggested it might be possible to substantially reduce the number of people suffering from hunger.
While progress was uneven, by 2014, the threat of extreme hunger had receded for a large portion of the world's population.
According to the FAO's 2021 The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI) report, the number of people suffering from chronic hunger began to rise gradually between 2014 and 2019. In 2020,
there was a massive increase, resulting in nearly 770 million people suffering from malnutrition.
While most of the world's people continue to live in Asia, much of the increase in hunger since 2015 occurred in Africa and South America. The FAO's 2017 report discussed three principal reasons for the recent increase in hunger: climate, conflict, and economic slowdowns.
The 2018 edition focused on extreme weather as a primary driver of the increase in hunger, finding rising rates to be especially severe in countries where agricultural systems were most sensitive to extreme weather variations.
The 2019 SOFI report found a strong correlation between increases in hunger and countries that had suffered an economic slowdown.
The 2020 edition instead looked at the prospects of achieving the hunger related Sustainable Development Goal (SDG).
It warned that if nothing was done to counter the adverse trends of the past six years, the number of people suffering from chronic hunger could rise by over 150 million by 2030. The 2021 report reported a sharp jump in hunger caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Many thousands of organizations are engaged in the field of hunger relief, operating at local, national, regional, or international levels.
Some of these organizations are dedicated to hunger relief, while others may work in several different fields.
The organizations range from multilateral institutions to national governments, to small local initiatives such as independent soup kitchens.
Many participate in umbrella networks that connect thousands of different hunger relief organizations.
At the global level, much of the world's hunger relief efforts are coordinated by the UN and geared towards achieving SDG 2 of Zero Hunger by 2030
There is one globally recognized approach for defining and measuring hunger generally used by those studying or working to relieve hunger as a social problem.
This is the United Nation's FAO measurement, which is typically referred to as chronic undernourishment (or in older publications, as 'food deprivation,' 'chronic hunger,' or just plain 'hunger.') For the FAO:
The Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO) defines hunger, or undernourishment, as an inability to acquire enough food to satisfy dietary energy requirements. Food security is a situation where all people at all times have access to food and is composed of four dimensions: food availability, economic and physical access to food, food utilization, and stability over time. This report will mainly focus on the prevalence of undernourishment and net dependence on imports as the two indicators of hunger and food security, respectively.
Nearly one in five people living in the developing countries are hungry.
That rate has decreased steadily since the mid- 1990s, with the fastest decline in Africa and the lowest undernourishment rate in Northern Africa.
Unfortunately, the total number of undernourished in the developing world has climbed since 1991, largely driven by increasing population.
Africa has the highest levels of hunger in terms of both prevalence and absolute numbers—about half of the total undernourished population of the continent is in its Eastern
Ending world hunger is one of the greatest challenges of our times. Across the globe, up to 828 million people do not have enough food and 49 million people
End the hunger is possible only if we can work together and turn all our population into a production nation, with this we can feed ourselves
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