Whereas many from the world population face the problem of obesity...create numerous diets to shed weight...spend thousands on spas and gyms...MANY are dying from hunger....if only while eating extra or throwing food in the dustbin we could remember these people...maybe someone might not go hungry...THINK about it....!!!
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ISLAMABAD: World hunger is projected to reach a historic high in 2009 with 1,020 million people going hungry every day, according to new estimates published by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on Friday.
Poor global harvests were not blamed for the most recent increase in hunger but the world economic crisis that has resulted in lower incomes and increased unemployment. This has reduced access to food by the poor, the UN agency said.
This year, mainly due to the shocks of the economic crisis combined with often high national food prices, the number of hungry people is expected to grow overall by about 11 per cent, FAO projects, drawing on analysis by the US Department of Agriculture.
Almost all of the world’s undernourished live in developing countries. In Asia and the Pacific, an estimated 642 million people are suffering from chronic hunger; in Sub-Saharan Africa 265 million; in Latin America and the Caribbean 53 million; in the Near East and North Africa 42 million; and in developed countries 15 million in total.
The urban poor will probably face the most severe problems in coping with the global recession, because lower export demand and reduced foreign direct investment are more likely to hit urban jobs harder. But rural areas will not be spared. Millions of urban migrants will have to return to the countryside, forcing the rural poor to share the burden in many cases.
Unlike previous crises, developing countries have less room to adjust to the deteriorating economic conditions, because the turmoil is affecting practically all parts of the world more or less simultaneously.
The economic crisis also comes on the heel of the food and fuel crisis of 2006-08.
While food prices in world markets declined over the past months, domestic prices in developing countries came down more slowly.
They remained on average 24 percent higher in real terms by the end of 2008 compared to 2006.
For poor consumers, who spend up to 60 per cent of their incomes on staple foods, this means a strong reduction in their effective purchasing power.
It should also be noted that international food commodity prices are still 24 per cent higher than 2006 and 33 per cent higher than 2005.
ref:http://www.dawnnews.net/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/world/13+over+one+billion+go+hungry+worldwide+every+day-za-10
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ISLAMABAD: World hunger is projected to reach a historic high in 2009 with 1,020 million people going hungry every day, according to new estimates published by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on Friday.
Poor global harvests were not blamed for the most recent increase in hunger but the world economic crisis that has resulted in lower incomes and increased unemployment. This has reduced access to food by the poor, the UN agency said.
This year, mainly due to the shocks of the economic crisis combined with often high national food prices, the number of hungry people is expected to grow overall by about 11 per cent, FAO projects, drawing on analysis by the US Department of Agriculture.
Almost all of the world’s undernourished live in developing countries. In Asia and the Pacific, an estimated 642 million people are suffering from chronic hunger; in Sub-Saharan Africa 265 million; in Latin America and the Caribbean 53 million; in the Near East and North Africa 42 million; and in developed countries 15 million in total.
The urban poor will probably face the most severe problems in coping with the global recession, because lower export demand and reduced foreign direct investment are more likely to hit urban jobs harder. But rural areas will not be spared. Millions of urban migrants will have to return to the countryside, forcing the rural poor to share the burden in many cases.
Unlike previous crises, developing countries have less room to adjust to the deteriorating economic conditions, because the turmoil is affecting practically all parts of the world more or less simultaneously.
The economic crisis also comes on the heel of the food and fuel crisis of 2006-08.
While food prices in world markets declined over the past months, domestic prices in developing countries came down more slowly.
They remained on average 24 percent higher in real terms by the end of 2008 compared to 2006.
For poor consumers, who spend up to 60 per cent of their incomes on staple foods, this means a strong reduction in their effective purchasing power.
It should also be noted that international food commodity prices are still 24 per cent higher than 2006 and 33 per cent higher than 2005.
ref:http://www.dawnnews.net/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/world/13+over+one+billion+go+hungry+worldwide+every+day-za-10
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