10 Things You Need To Know About Hunger in the
world
How many hungry people are there in the world and is the
number going down? What effect does hunger have on
children and what can we do to help them? Here is
a list of 10 facts that go some way to explaining why
hunger is the single greatest solvable problem facing
the world today.
1. Approximately 870 million people in the world do not
eat enough to be healthy. That means that one in every
eight people on Earth goes to bed hungry each night.
(Source: FAO, 2012)
2.The number of people living with chronic hunger has
declined by 130 million people over the past 20 years
. For developing countries, the prevalence of
undernourishment has fallen from 23.2 to 14.9 percent
over the period 1990–2010
(Source: FAO, 2012)
3. Most of the progress against hunger
was achieved before 2007/08. Since then, global progress in
reducing hunger has slowed and levelled off.
(Source: FAO, 2012)
4. Hunger is number one on the list of the world’s top 10
health risks. It kills more people every year than AIDS,
malaria and tuberculosis combined.
5. A third of all deaths in children under the age of
five in developing countries are linked to
undernutrition.
(Source: IGME, 2011)
6. The first 1,000 days of a child’s life, from pregnancy
through age two, are the critical window in which to
tackle undernutrition. A proper diet in this period can
protect children from the mental and physical stunting
that can result from malnutrition. (Source: IGME, 2011)
7. It costs just US $0.25 per day to provide a child with
all of the vitamins and nutrients he or she needs to
grow up healthy.
(Source: WFP, 2011)
8. If women in rural areas had the same access to land,
8. If women in rural areas had the same access to land,
technology, financial services, education and markets
as men, the number of hungry people could be reduced
by 100-150 million.
(Source:FAO, 2011)
9. By 2050, climate change and erratic weather patterns
could have pushed another 24 million children into hunger.
Almost half of these children would be in sub-Saharan
Africa.
(Source: IFPRI, 2009)
10. Hunger is the single biggest solvable problem facing
the world today. Here are eight effective strategies
for fighting hunger.
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