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There were hungry people, to be sure, but disaster was avoided.
There are too many unions, monopolists, and bureaucrats that behave like hungry sharks, accustomed to feeding off oil revenues and appropriating the extraordinary wealth that Mexico produces but does not share in an equitable and democratic way.
In a world hungry for attractive investment returns, a prospective Trump boom has drawn funds to Wall Street, in turn increasing demand for the dollar.
So long as foreigners are hungry for dollars, the US can spend whatever it needs to project power around the globe, simply by cranking up the printing press.
One major reason why the majority of the hungry are among those who depend on small-scale farming is that they are insufficiently organized.
People are hungry not because too little food is being produced, but because their rights are violated with impunity.
Indeed, the consequences of the fall-off in ODA are already dramatic; the number of people going hungry and in extreme poverty is now far greater than before, and the same is true of the unemployed, those who work in vulnerable jobs, or earn less than $1.25 a day.
As long as foreigners are hungry for dollars, the US can spend whatever it needs to project power around the world.
Since 1992, the number of hungry people worldwide has plummeted by more than 200 million, even as the human population grew by nearly two billion.
When a river that crosses a border or flows through disputed territory becomes a matter of life and death, or food prices skyrocket because a local crop has failed (or even because a major global producer redirects its exports to its own hungry people), conflict can start and spiral out of control very quickly.
In other words, almost half of what is produced on Africa's farms rots there, while the vast majority of the population goes to bed hungry.
To stretch the metaphor a little, this seems like building ever-larger safari parks instead of creating more farms to feed the hungry.
Nothing would be wiser for the world's rich countries than to fulfill their pledges to the world's poor, hungry and disease-ridden peoples.
Its history has seen many coups, tens of thousands of people missing, a war with Great Britain, bouts of hyperinflation, a brutal economic crisis, default on foreign debt, and its most vulnerable citizens going hungry.
Indeed, we have not even succeeded at providing enough food for today’s population of 7.3 billion: Nearly 800 million people currently are starving or hungry, and another couple billion do not get enough micronutrients.
The Dera offered free education to its members and their children and free food for the hungry.
A hungry man will take food from a murderer’s hand.”
Meanwhile, a billion people go hungry each day.
As a development specialist working on the ground in the drylands, I know that no military solution can stabilize this vast region as long as people remain hungry, face famines, lack water, and are without livelihoods and hope.
When people are hungry, deprived of basic needs such as clean water, health care, and education, and without meaningful employment, they suffer.
Food Fears ReturnROME – Lack of food is rarely the reason that people go hungry.
Of course, if you are hungry or undernourished today as a result of food-price increases, that is a distinction without a difference.
Instead of going hungry, humans around the world on a per capita basis are eating more calories than ever before.
The young people of Venezuela are enslaved by a grotesque regime; they despair of the future; and they are hungry.
For South Koreans, whether to care for hungry North Koreans, who are kith and kin, will be a much tougher decision than for others who see only a distant security problem.
According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, one in seven people worldwide – 925 million people in total – goes to bed hungry each night.
In 1991, 23.4% of all people in the developing world were malnourished; more than a billion people went to bed hungry.
But the link between food scarcity and migration is stronger than it might seem to those who are not among the hungry.
According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, just one-quarter of the food we throw out or squander each year would be enough to feed 870 million hungry people.
Other options that the economists favored spending some of their $50 billion include providing micro-nutrients to the world’s hungry, establishing free trade, and battling malaria with mosquito nets and medication.
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