Hunger
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Nanny’s small nephews died from
hunger
in Leningrad during the siege.
Likewise, following the 2008 global economic crisis, food-price spikes and recession caused the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization to revise its
hunger
estimates upward, to more than one billion people.
Considering the FAO’s conservative definition of chronic severe hunger, this is a serious indictment of global poverty-reduction efforts.
Good News in Bad TimesNEW YORK – At a time when the headlines are filled with financial crises and violence, it is especially important to recognize the creativity of many governments in fighting poverty, disease, and
hunger.
Spain will host a meeting in January 2009 to launch a new fight against global
hunger.
The conventional wisdom will tell you that the MDGs targets – reducing poverty and hunger, improving the health of mothers and children, combating HIV/AIDS, increasing access to education, protecting the environment, and forging a global partnership for development – are simply unattainable.
As with AIDS, a few dollars per person of assistance for agriculture each year could spare millions from
hunger.
The northern countries, unfortunately known as the First World, use the
hunger
and poverty of southern nations to ensure a better life for themselves.
Everyday, nearly 100 children die from
hunger
and preventable diseases.
Failures of rainfall contribute not only to famines and chronic hunger, but also to the onset of violence when hungry people clash over scarce food and water.
But Darfur, like Tigre, needs a development strategy to fight
hunger
and drought even more than it needs peacekeepers.
This is especially ironic because African countries like Ethiopia stand steadfastly and bravely with the US in the fight for freedom and against terrorism, even as they struggle with hunger, disease, and famine.
Africans suffering from
hunger
and drought, and indeed poor people everywhere, have a right to ask much more of the US and other rich countries.
They are insufficient to stop abuses (after all, sanctions were threatened before the elections) and risk pushing Zimbabwe's economy deeper into crisis, hurting millions of innocent people, especially during a period of intensifying
hunger
and drought.
Savchenko has been on a
hunger
strike in Russia for more than two months to protest her patently illegal incarceration on charges even more ludicrous than those for which I was imprisoned.
My father taught me that the most important freedom is freedom from
hunger.
The
hunger
for change in Mexico, and the outgoing administration’s incompetence and loss of credibility, probably made AMLO’s victory inevitable.
And more than two billion people suffer from “hidden hunger” – one or more micronutrient deficiencies.
But, even after that,
hunger
and undernourishment continue to diminish children’s chances of surviving to adulthood, much less reaching their full potential.
Ironically, in many parts of the world, pervasive
hunger
coexists with rising levels of obesity.
But have we really confronted the fact that to achieve the targets – especially on eradicating extreme poverty and
hunger
– we need decent jobs for the rapidly growing, urbanized, and youthful populations of Africa?
Even before the recent food price spikes, an estimated billion people were suffering from chronic hunger, while another two billion were experiencing malnutrition, bringing the total number of food-insecure people to around three billion, or almost half the world’s population.
The MDGs focus on ending extreme poverty, hunger, and preventable disease.
The adoption of the MDGs focused increased attention by African governments, non-governmental organizations, UN agencies, international donors, foundations, and activists on the urgency of combating poverty, hunger, and disease.
The Catholic charity CARITAS Venezuela projects that 280,000 children will die of
hunger
this year.
And, because severe
hunger
still affects many African countries, investors can even contribute to the public good by investing in fertilizers, machinery, water and irrigation systems, and other areas of the agriculture sector.
Doing business in Africa will also create sustainable jobs and advance the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals to eliminate poverty and
hunger.
Nor can we allow the financial crisis to become a reason for neglecting other critical issues: unacceptable levels of poverty and hunger, the food crisis, climate change.
The MDGs helped millions of people escape illiteracy, disease, and hunger, and placed development at the heart of the global political agenda.
And yet the UN Food and Agricultural Organization estimates that 925 million people were living in
hunger
in 2010.
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