Poverty and Hunger
Who?
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This is a global issues. But the worst part is about women and
children.
Women and Children ● 60 percent of the world’s hungry are
women. ● 50 percent of pregnant women in developing
countries lack proper maternal care, resulting in 240,000
maternal deaths annually from childbirth. ● 1 out of 6 infants
are born with a low birth weight in developing countries. ● Poor
nutrition causes nearly half (45%) of deaths in children under
five – 3.1 million children each year. That is 8,500 children per
day. ● A third of all childhood death in subSaharan Africa is
caused by hunger. ● 66 million primary schoolage children
attend classes hungry across the developing world, with 23
million in Africa alone. ● Every 10 seconds, a child dies from
hungerrelated diseases.
When
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There have no exact time .
The vast majority of hungry people live in
developing regions, which saw a 42 percent
reduction in the prevalence of undernourished
people between 1990–92 and 2012–14. Despite this
progress, about one in eight people, or 13.5 percent
of the overall population, remain chronically
undernourished in these regions, down from 23.4
percent in 1990–92. As the most populous region in
the world, Asia is home to two out of three of the
world’s undernourished people.
Where
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Where is hunger the worst? Asia: 525.6
million SubSaharan Africa​: 214 million Latin
America and the Caribbean: 37 million
Aiming at the very heart of hunger, The
Hunger Project is currently committed to
work in Bangladesh​,​Benin​,​Burkina
Faso​,​Ethiopia​,​India​,​Ghana​,​Malawi​,​Mexico​,
Mozambique​,​Peru​,​Senegal​​and ​Uganda​
Why
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Harmful economic systems.​Hunger Notes
believes that a principal underlying cause of
poverty and hunger is the ordinary operation
of the economic and political systems in the
world. Essentially control over resources and
income is based on military, political, and
economic power that typically ends up in the
hands of a minority, who live well, while those
at the bottom barely survive, if they do. We
have described the operation of this system in
more detail in our special section on Harmful
economic systems​
The impact of poverty and hunger
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poverty is a major cause of social tensions and threatens to
divide a nation because of the issue of inequalities, in particular
income inequality.
In a society, poverty is a very dangerous factor that can
destabilize and entire country. in all of the countries concerned,
the revolts started because of the lack of jobs and high poverty
levels. This has led to most governments being overthrown).
Crippling accidents as a result of unsafe work environments—
consider the recent building collapse in Bangladesh.
Poor housing—a long-lasting cause of diseases.
Water and food related diseases that occur simply because the
poor cannot afford “safe” foods.
Children from poor backgrounds lag behind at all stages of
education.
Global level
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hunger:
805 million people – or one in nine people in the world – do not have enough to eat.
98% of the world’s undernourished people live in developing countries.
Poverty
1.4 billion people in developing countries live on $1.25 a day or less.
Rural areas account for three out of every four people living on less than $1.25 a day.
22,000 children die each day due to conditions of poverty.
Rural Hunger Project partners have access to income-generating workshops,
empowering their self-reliance. Our Microfinance Program in Africa provides access to
credit, adequate training and instilling in our partners the importance of saving.
Current trends
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We are living through a period of rapid
global poverty reduction. According to
recent estimates, high, sustained growth
across most of the developing world has
helped nearly half a billion people
escape $1.25-a-day poverty between
2005 and 2010. Never before have so
many people been lifted out of poverty
over such a brief period.
Solusions
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1. Employment generation 2. Drawing on various
social institutions to fund poverty fighting programs
e.g. charities, research institutions, U.N. , non-profit
organizations, universities. 3. Transparency in
government spending 4. Cancelling impossible to
repay world debts 5. Prioritizing programs that
target fundamental human rights 6. Taxing the rich
more and the poor less 7. Building self-sufficient
economies 8. Education 9. Involvement of the
media 10. Microfinancing
Hunger is an effect of poverty and poverty is largely
a political issue.So solving World poverty means
solving world hunger.