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Facts on Hunger & Poverty

852 million people across the world are hungry

Everyday almost 16,000 childern die from hunger-related causes---one child every five seconds.

Hunger manifests itself in many ways other than starvation and famine. Most poor people who battle hunger deal with chronic undernourishment and vitamin or mineral deficiencies, which result in stunted growth, weakness and heightened susceptibility to illness.

Countries in which a large portion of population battles hunger daily are usually poor and often lack the social safety nets we enjoy, such as soup kitchens, food stamps, and job training programs. When a family that lives in a poor country cannot grow enough food or earn enough money to buy food, there is nowhere to turn for help.

Over 9 million people die worldwide each year because of hunger and malnutrition. 5 million of those are children

Approximately 1.2 billion people suffer from hunger; deficiency of calories and protein

In UK 30-40% of all food is never eaten and in the last decade the amount of food thrown away went up by 15%.

20 billion euro worth of food is thrown away every year.

Wasting this food leads to enviromental threats and the most dangerous one being that it creates more methane contributing to harm the climate change

The various ways that causes poverty would be: land rights and ownder

Half the world — nearly three billion people — live on less than two dollars a day.

The GDP (Gross Domestic Product) of the poorest 48 nations (i.e. a quarter of the world’s countries) is less than the wealth of the world’s three richest people combined.

20% of the population in the developed nations, consume 86% of the world’s goods.

Approximately 790 million people in the developing world are still chronically undernourished, almost two-thirds of whom reside in Asia and the Pacific.”

In 2005, the most recent year for which data is available, approximately 38 million people were eligible to participate in the Food Stamp Program. About 65 percent of these actually participated, a rate that has increased by 16 percent since 2001.

Countires in which a large portion of the population battles hunger daily are usually poor and often lack the social safety nets we enjoy, such as souop kitchens, food stamps, and job training programs. When a family that lives in a poor country cannot grow enough food or earn enough money to buy food, there is nowhere to turn for help.

Economically, the constant securing of food consumes valuable time and energy of poor people, allowing less time for work and earning income

The information was found from the following websites: http://www.globalissues.org/TradeRelated/Facts.asp http://www.globalissues.org/TradeRelated/Poverty/Hunger/Causes.asp

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