Hunger
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Now, poor rains, crop shortages, and continuing conflict could cause millions to be plunged back into life-threatening levels of
hunger
and malnutrition.
AIDS, hunger, armed conflict, and global warming compete for attention alongside government failure, malaria, and the latest natural disaster.
This balanced approach is important because most of the world’s hotspots are in trouble not only, or even mainly, because of politics, but because of the underlying challenges of hunger, disease, and environmental crisis.
On an extended trip this summer through rural areas of Asia, the Middle East, and Africa on behalf of the United Nations, I visited countless villages afflicted with extreme
hunger
and struggling to survive against the odds.
Incredibly, the actions of the richest countries – which promised solidarity with the world’s poorest people at the G-8 Summit in July – have intensified the
hunger
crisis.
They respond to
hunger
emergencies such as Niger’s with food relief, but fail to help with long-lasting solutions.
The expanding
hunger
crisis reflects a lethal combination of growing rural populations and inadequate food yields.
Because of rural impoverishment and a drought earlier this year, dire
hunger
afflicts millions of people.
Villages currently trapped in
hunger
and subsistence agriculture would become commercial centers for food processing and exports, and even for rural industry and services supported by electrification, mobile phones, and other improved technologies.
This is a year of both widespread
hunger
and solemn promises by the rich countries.
Today, however, the real threats to the majority of the world's population stems from dangers almost unknown back then: poverty, hunger, population growth, migration, the environment, and the like.
First, “genetic engineering cannot solve the
hunger
and food insecurity problem.”
But if God gave us brains, it was so that we should use them to ensure a balance between people and nature to help eliminate
hunger
and protect the environment.
Such a reversal would reduce hunger, poverty, and malnutrition; help protect our planet’s natural resources; and slow the emission of greenhouse gases from agriculture.
In India, Vandana Shiva, an environmental activist and adviser to the government, called golden rice “a hoax” that is “creating
hunger
and malnutrition, not solving it.”
Recently, the Copenhagen Consensus project gathered eight of the world’s top economists – including five Nobel laureates – to examine research on the best ways to tackle 10 global challenges: air pollution, conflict, disease, global warming,
hunger
and malnutrition, lack of education, gender inequity, lack of water and sanitation, terrorism, and trade barriers.
But the reality is that all 17 SDGs – from ending
hunger
and providing clean water and sanitation to conserving ecosystems – depend, to varying degrees, on how effectively we harness science and technology.
Thanks to the leadership of African countries that have made agricultural development a priority, and to the tireless efforts of many international organizations, real progress is being made against
hunger
and poverty on the continent.
Ghana, for example, drastically reduced both poverty and
hunger
over the past 25 years by focusing on agricultural investments.
The result today is a thriving agricultural sector, which is growing at more than 5% a year, and
hunger
levels that fell by 75% from 1990-2004.
For example, we selected the four SDGs relating to hunger, health, energy, and oceans, and then identified every possible interaction between them and the other goals and targets.
Land access, which is more unevenly distributed than incomes, is a deciding factor in whether someone suffers from malnutrition: 20% of households that experience
hunger
do not own land, and 50% of people who experience
hunger
are small-scale farmers.
Poverty, malnutrition, and
hunger
are a result of politics, not scarcity.
More importantly, Rotary’s leadership on polio offers a more general lesson in the fight against extreme poverty, hunger, and disease.
These same lessons can be applied to the Millennium Development Goals (MDG’s), the targets for fighting poverty, disease, and
hunger
that the world’s governments adopted in 2000.
Just as with polio, the fight against hunger, disease, and lack of access to safe water and sanitation can be carried forward with practical and powerful technologies.
Consider
hunger
in Africa.
If organizations like Rotary International can help African farmers to get a 50 kilogram bag of appropriate fertilizer and a 10 kilogram tin of improved seeds, the rise in farm output could be enough to relieve extreme
hunger
and help farm households begin to earn some income.
In a short period of time, the world’s citizens can make deep inroads in the fight against disease, hunger, and poverty.
Once the agricultural sector of the USSR was collectivized, the
hunger
began.
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