Global Hunger Continues For One In Eight In The World

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by War News Updates Editor War News Updates: Global Hunger Continues For One In Eight In The World

(Reuters) - One out of every eight people in the world is chronically undernourished, the United Nations' food agencies said on Tuesday, and aid groups warned that rising food prices could reverse gains in the fight against hunger.

In a report on food insecurity, the UN agencies said 868 million people were hungry in 2010-2012, or about 12.5 percent of the world's population, down more sharply than previously estimated from about 1 billion, or 18.6 percent in 1990-92.

The new figures, based on a revised calculation method and more up-to-date data, are lower than the last estimates for recent years that pegged the number of hungry people at 925 million in 2010 and 1.02 billion in 2009.

Read more .... One in eight of world population going hungry: U.N. | Reuters

More News On Global Hunger

UN says world hungry not 1 billion after all -- Seattle Times/AP
UN Says World Hungry Now Under 1 Billion -- Voice of America
MDG target to halve prevalence of hunger within reach, says UN -- The Guardian
UN tweaks the methodology of malnourishment -- Globe and Mail
Hunger falls but still unacceptably high-FAO chief – Reuters

 

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Global hunger still a problem...

Hunger Remains Serious Global Problem
October 11, 2012 - The 2012 Global Hunger Index says hunger remains a serious problem worldwide, with alarming levels in some countries. The Index links hunger to the unsustainable use of land, water and energy resources.

The Global Hunger Index is published annually by the International Food Policy Research Institute, or IFPRI; Concern Worldwide; and the private German development agency Welthungerhilfe. It says 17 countries have hunger levels described as alarming, while three others are listed as extremely alarming—namely, Burundi, Eritrea and Haiti. Despite the situation in the two African countries, the Index says the sub-Saharan region has made progress against hunger over the last 5 to 10 years. South Asia, on the other hand, has made little progress during that same period, despite having done well in the 1990s. “It’s a measure of three dimensions of hunger: undernourishment, child underweight and child mortality that are equally weighted,” said Claudia Ringer, deputy division director of IFPRI’s Environment and Production Technology Division and co-author of the Global Hunger Index.

The Index also lists countries that have made good strides against hunger. “Those countries with the best performance include Angola, Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Malawi, Nicaragua, Niger and Vietnam,” she said. Ringer added that the Index ties hunger to the unsustainable use of land, water and energy. “The reason that those two issues are closely interlinked is that the poor depend disproportionately on natural resources. They tend to be farmers, herders, fishermen and women, who directly work with and live on land, water and energy resources. As such, they are particularly disadvantaged as a result of growing scarcity and degradation of these natural resources,” she said.

She said, at the same time, those who are hungry tend to lack rights to the land they farm, and have limited access to water, sanitation and modern forms of energy. The key drivers for resource scarcity, Ringer said, are population changes, higher and skewed incomes, poor policies and weak institutions.

The Global Hunger Index says signals of resource scarcity include the many food price spikes since the 2007/2008 food crisis, large international land deals targeting sub-Saharan African countries, rapidly rising energy prices and a loss of biodiversity. The Index recommends securing land and water rights for local populations, phasing out inefficient subsidies for water, energy and fertilizers, increased agricultural technology and improved education and reproductive health services for women.

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[copsnrobbers]

No home, No money, no food.. just sex.

Fucking idiots. They need to call George Soros......

 

[PoliticalChic]

How much 'global hunger' is the result of the Leftist environmentalism.....co-opting sugar cane, etc to make ethanol....

"At the onset of the Egypt uprising and the Arab Spring food price inflation in Egypt was over 20 percent. The increase was caused by the rising global price of wheat. The global price of wheat rose between 50 and 70 percent in 2010. As a result Egyptian budgets were drained. Egypt is among the world’s largest importers of wheat, and the global wheat market has been dynamic recently."
EcoTalk: Climate Change Seasons: Food Winter - Arab Spring -Societal Fall


" The results showed that the dominant causes of price increases during this period were investor speculation and ethanol conversion."
UPDATE February 2012 — The Food Crises: Predictive validation of a quantitative model of food prices including speculators and ethanol conversion | NECSI

 

[52ndStreet]

Global Hunger , part of the One World Government conspiracy.

 

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Ending hunger in a generation...

Report Calls for End to Hunger in a Generation
November 20, 2012 - Ending hunger within a generation is achievable, and should be one of the goals in the next round of United Nations development targets, according to a new report by an anti-hunger advocacy group.

Bread for the World is urging the United States to take the lead to end world hunger by 2040. "The world made more progress against poverty in the 2000s than in any other decade in human history," says David Beckmann, president of Bread for the World. Part of the credit for that progress, Beckmann says, should go to a set of goals agreed to by United Nations member countries at the turn of the millennium to improve basic living conditions worldwide by 2015. The Millennium Development Goals provided a way to hold governments accountable and to mobilize support for more effective global development.

While most countries are reaching the goal of reducing extreme poverty, progress is lagging on the goal of cutting the number of hungry people in the world by half. But Beckmann says the international community is moving in the right direction. And with 2015 just around the corner, he says it's time to think about the next step. "That bullet [main] goal should be to get the job done," Beckmann says. "To end world hunger and extreme poverty within a generation. It's possible and it's very compelling."

He credits U.S. President Barack Obama for launching initiatives in his first term aimed at boosting food security in developing countries. Beckmann says those initiatives are just getting started. Now that Mr. Obama has been re-elected, Beckmann says there is potential for significant progress. "If the president provides leadership, we could hit within the next three years...the millennium development goal for cutting hunger in half. And he would have put us on track for ending hunger in a generation."

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Improving wheat crops with DNA map...

Wheat DNA Map Could Help Breed Better Crops
November 30, 2012 - Mapping wheat's genetic blueprint could help researchers and breeders improve the crop.

The most complete map ever of wheat's genetic blueprint could provide plant breeders with new clues to improving one of the world’s most important food crops. The new map includes tens of thousands of genetic signposts on wheat's DNA molecules. These markers will help guide researchers and breeders who are working to better understand how the plant copes with salty soil or drought, for example.

Better varieties

Such insights, theoretically, will allow them to create better varieties of wheat much more quickly than in the past. “We knew this was a necessary thing because breeders and researchers who were working on wheat were crying out for this sort of resource,” says Mike Bevan at the U.K. research institute, the John Innes Centre. Wheat is among the world’s most widely consumed grains. And with the global population expected to reach nine billion by 2050, Bevan says efforts to improve the crop are essential.

But while the maize and rice genomes were published years ago, unraveling the wheat genome has been especially hard. For one thing, it’s huge. The map just published in Nature identified nearly 100,000 genes. “Given that the human genome contains about 25,000 genes, this was a massive gene set,” Bevan says.

Complicated genes