Hunger
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Spain is taking global leadership in combating
hunger
by inviting world leaders to Madrid in late January to move beyond words to action.
Hundreds of millions of people, in the meantime, remain trapped in
hunger.
Despite the dedicated efforts of many professionals, the response to the
hunger
crisis remains utterly inadequate.
History can be made in Madrid at the end of January, when the world’s richest and poorest countries converge to seek solutions to the global
hunger
crisis.
I link the coup and the World Bank for the following reason: Mali is yet another example of a country where extreme poverty, hunger, disease, drought, and famine cause political instability and violence.
I have been saying and writing for years that the dryland regions stretching West to East – from Senegal to Mali, Niger, Chad, Sudan, Somalia, Yemen, Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, and Afghanistan – are a growing tinder box, where climate change, drought, hunger, and population growth are creating ever greater instability.
Defending economic aid to Europe after World War II, General George C. Marshall, then US Secretary of State, gave an inspirational speech that argued that US policy is not directed against “any country or doctrine, but against hunger, poverty, desperation, and chaos.”
The billions of dollars that the US seeks should be directed towards true global emergencies, such as the fight against AIDS and
hunger.
The world would stand up and cheer if the US called upon the October donor meeting to address truly life-and-death issues like the battle against AIDS and
hunger.
Even before the recent food-price increases, a 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.
By now millions were supposed to be perishing from
hunger
every year.
Twenty percent more Africans will be at risk of
hunger
in 2050 due to a changing climate.
They amassed untold wealth as
hunger
and disease ripped their societies apart and pushed more Africans deeper into poverty.
Few South Koreans remember those straitened months anymore, but for North Koreans,
hunger
in the countryside during this time of year is very real.
On hunger, the key is to help Africa achieve its own Green Revolution.
More than one million people are exposed to
hunger
and disease and, with the rain and hurricane seasons approaching, are vulnerable to further hazards.
Crime is rampant, the health-care system is broken, and
hunger
is widespread.
In other words, nearly one in five Indians suffers from chronic
hunger.
In fact, India – the world’s largest producer of milk and edible oils, and the second-largest producer of wheat, fruits, vegetables, and sugar – produces enough food to combat
hunger.
While there is enough food overall, surplus food from some areas does not reach the
hunger
belt (Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Orissa, Rajasthan, and Uttar Pradesh).
The continued prevalence of
hunger
in India, does not reflect insurmountable obstacles.
In fact, given today’s knowledge, technology, and available investment funds,
hunger
and malnutrition in the country could be tackled effectively.
If India’s leaders do not speak for them,
hunger
will remain the country’s shame.
While we rejoice in our successes, however, we have long recognized that our future is tied to our neighbors’ challenges, whether they include military conflicts, as was true 20 years ago, or
hunger
and disease, as is the case today.
Obviously, everyone would like to stop wars and violence, just as we would like to end poverty, hunger, and global warming, while providing education to all.
Is reducing violence a goal worthy of resources that would otherwise be spent on, say, reducing
hunger?
Given that the new global development targets – like the current Millennium Development Goals, which have focused on health, hunger, and education – could guide the allocation of hundreds of billions of aid dollars, choosing the right areas on which to focus is critical.
The world would halve the proportion of people suffering from
hunger
and living in extreme poverty, achieve universal primary education, and dramatically reduce child mortality by 2015.
The target of halving hunger, for example, may be missed – though not by much.
And some in the US Congress want to cut food stamps – on which some 23 million American households depend, threatening the poorest children with
hunger.
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