Hunger has three meanings (Oxford English Dictionary 1971): the uneasy or painful sensation caused by want of food; craving appetite. the uneasy or painful sensation caused by want of food; craving appetite. Also the exhausted condition caused by want of food, the want or scarcity of food in a country, or a strong desire or craving. The world population is increasing at a tremendous amount, more than it has ever grown before, for any species of animal. However, we do not have enough food to feed this growing population. The population is supposed to grow by 2.3 by 2050. To feed 2.3 billion more people than we have now we would need to double the amount of food that we are currently producing. There are many causes of world hunger, some are
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The population had started to grow rapidly after the bubonic plague, also known as the black death, ended. In 1950 there was only 2.5 billion people in the world, by 2000 there was six billion people in the world, and by 2050 there will be nine billion in the world and increasing, and at the rate that we are going there will never be enough food for everyone.
⅛ of people on Earth go to bed hungry, that is eight hundred seventy million people that are hungry. Most of the people that are suffering from hunger are living in places that are developing such as Burundi, which over seventy three of their population has malnutrition. The places in the world that are most affected by world hunger are Pakistan, with twenty eight million people that are hungry, and Nigeria, with nineteen million people that are hungry. Malnutrition is the effect of people not having enough food; there are two types of malnutrition: protein-energy malnutrition and micronutrient deficiency. Protein-energy malnutrition is the lack of calories and protein. This is important because protein is necessary for the body to function. The result of protein-energy malnutrition is growth failure. Micronutrient deficiency is the lack of crucial vitamins and minerals. This …show more content…
More than one third of the food produced on Earth each year is wasted, that is thirty million pounds of food. Food is especially wasted in rich countries, such as America and Great Britain. There is a ton of food that is wasted in restaurants, and there is a simple solution to that: smaller portions. In America we eat huge portions of food, so much that when people from other countries come to visit they cannot eat half of our portions. Also a ton of people in rich countries are eating a ton food and are dying from obesity, while people on the other side of the world are dying of hunger. About thirty six percent of Americans are obese, and seventy four percent of men are overweight or obese. Only fifteen percent of Americans have food-insecurity, which is when a home does not have a reliable access to food. Having a healthy diet can improve food welfare. People today have very rich diets, eating more than double the amount of calories that the average person is supposed to eat. Greed is another one of the main reason for world hunger, mother nature and planet earth can provide for all the people on Earth. This can only happen if people share their food supply with people who need more food. If we could distribute the food we have evenly across the globe there would not be world hunger. In America there are only three hundred eighteen million people, but in Africa there are 1.1 billion people and America
The population had started to grow rapidly after the bubonic plague, also known as the black death, ended. In 1950 there was only 2.5 billion people in the world, by 2000 there was six billion people in the world, and by 2050 there will be nine billion in the world and increasing, and at the rate that we are going there will never be enough food for everyone.
⅛ of people on Earth go to bed hungry, that is eight hundred seventy million people that are hungry. Most of the people that are suffering from hunger are living in places that are developing such as Burundi, which over seventy three of their population has malnutrition. The places in the world that are most affected by world hunger are Pakistan, with twenty eight million people that are hungry, and Nigeria, with nineteen million people that are hungry. Malnutrition is the effect of people not having enough food; there are two types of malnutrition: protein-energy malnutrition and micronutrient deficiency. Protein-energy malnutrition is the lack of calories and protein. This is important because protein is necessary for the body to function. The result of protein-energy malnutrition is growth failure. Micronutrient deficiency is the lack of crucial vitamins and minerals. This …show more content…
More than one third of the food produced on Earth each year is wasted, that is thirty million pounds of food. Food is especially wasted in rich countries, such as America and Great Britain. There is a ton of food that is wasted in restaurants, and there is a simple solution to that: smaller portions. In America we eat huge portions of food, so much that when people from other countries come to visit they cannot eat half of our portions. Also a ton of people in rich countries are eating a ton food and are dying from obesity, while people on the other side of the world are dying of hunger. About thirty six percent of Americans are obese, and seventy four percent of men are overweight or obese. Only fifteen percent of Americans have food-insecurity, which is when a home does not have a reliable access to food. Having a healthy diet can improve food welfare. People today have very rich diets, eating more than double the amount of calories that the average person is supposed to eat. Greed is another one of the main reason for world hunger, mother nature and planet earth can provide for all the people on Earth. This can only happen if people share their food supply with people who need more food. If we could distribute the food we have evenly across the globe there would not be world hunger. In America there are only three hundred eighteen million people, but in Africa there are 1.1 billion people and America