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True to form, he recently announced a big increase in US food aid – good for the hungry poor and good for American farmers.
No doubt, millions of people at the end of the war were too hungry and exhausted to do anything much beyond staying alive.
But, despite these gains in expanding the food supply, at least 805 million people still go hungry every day, of whom some 791 million live in developing countries.
Many more go hungry seasonally or intermittently.
It’s as if we were discussing how to divide an apple pie when more hungry people want a big slice than there are big slices.
Are the pie-seekers genuinely hungry, or are they already well fed and just looking for a treat?
Harvests of HungerNew York – Lack of food is rarely the reason people go hungry.
Its recent agreement with China on border demarcation notwithstanding, Russia can never be assured of China’s ultimate intentions as a colossal power hungry for raw materials for its booming economy and living space for its massive population.
They erred gravely – and this is less often recognized – in discouraging the moderate Palestinian middle class, many of whom have quit the occupied territories, leaving behind a generation of young, ignorant, hungry, and angry warriors.
Yet, because beneficiary governments are so hungry for aid dollars, they are usually all too eager to follow the agendas prepared by donors and their contractors.
Every dollar invested in bolstering a country’s nuclear arsenal is a diversion of resources from its schools, hospitals, and other social services, and a theft from the millions around the globe who go hungry or are denied access to basic medicines.
Instead of an expansionist Russian empire confronting Imperial Britain, it is now a China hungry for land, water, and raw materials that is flexing its muscles, encroaching on Himalayan redoubts and directly challenging India.
By using high-yield seeds, better soil management, and proper row planting, the community has more than tripled its crop production, and villagers who previously were hungry grain buyers are now food-secure grain sellers.
But the kind of food you eat and when you eat it does influence how hungry you feel (and thus your self-control), and whether you use up the calories you eat or turn them into fat even as you still feel hungry.
Avoid shopping for food when you are hungry.
If Lustig is right and eating sugar just makes you hungry, you can see the mechanics for yourself.
But in what has been a truly malignant “export” from America to Europe, the US created “garbage debt” in the form of sub-prime mortgages, and Europeans – hungry for extra yield, and as reckless as Americans – bought it.
But scientists occasionally “go rogue,” forsaking the scientific method – often for notoriety or economic gain – to produce propaganda and to sow fear in a public that lacks expertise but is hungry for information.
Many are malnourished or hungry.
One in eight people go to bed hungry every night, while 1.4 billion adults are overweight.
None of us can thrive in a world where one billion people go to bed hungry each night and 2.3 billion lack access to basic sanitation.
Progress is distressingly slow on the United Nations’ goal of halving the number of hungry people by 2015.
Many of its citizens are hungry.
Whereas Japan, the US, and Europe are competent at research into what is almost known, the cutting-edge science is more likely to emerge in an economy hungry for resources and infrastructure, such as China.
But it would also abolish the risk of starvation and malnutrition in a land where too many have gone hungry for too long.
Without it, her family might have risked going hungry.
Lifting subsistence farmers out of their precarious position would be equivalent to halving the number of hungry people.
Everywhere there are startups, innovations, and young entrepreneurs hungry for profits.
In a hungry and poor rural economy, as China was in the 1970’s and as most of Africa is today, a key starting point is to raise farm productivity.
He could not have continued on his destructive path if not for the investors and board members who – hungry for profits and full of excuses – allowed misogyny, disregard for ethics, and poor judgment to become entwined in the company’s managerial fabric.
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