The global population is expected to reach 9 billion people by the year 2050 and scientific projections indicate that world is on a trajectory towards an environmental and global food crisis. World Leaders, environmental enthusiasts and aid agencies have cause for alarm as they support urgent policies for change, for without them mankind will face unprecedented food insecurity.

In 2015 estimates were that there were “some 795 million people” World Food Programme, 2015, experiencing food insecurity and 3.1 million children under 5 died through malnutrition, while Australians continue to waste an estimated 361 Kg’s of food per person per yr All the while the earth groans under the weight of Greenhouse Gas Emissions , deforestation, and soil degradation.

THERE AIN'T ENOUGH FOOD WORLDWIDE AND ITS GETTING WORSER...NO GRAMMAR CHECK

11 FACTS ABOUT WORLD HUNGER

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1. 11.3% of the world’s population is hungry. That’s roughly 805 million people who go undernourished on a daily basis, consuming less than the recommended 2,100 calories a day.
2. The world produces enough food to feed all 7 billion people, but those who go hungry either do not have land to grow food or money to purchase it. Fight hunger in your community by collecting food outside a local supermarket.
3. 10 countries that have achieved greatest success in reducing the total number of hungry people in proportion to their national population are Armenia, Azerbaijan, Brazil, Cuba, Georgia, Ghana, Kuwait, Saint Vincent and Grenadines, Thailand and Venezuela.
4. Poverty is the principal cause of hunger. The causes of poverty include poor people's lack of resources, an extremely unequal income distribution in the world and within specific countries, conflict, and hunger itself.
5. In 2010, an estimated 7.6 million children — more than 20,000 a day — died. Poor nutrition plays a role in at least half of these deaths.
6. Nearly 98% of worldwide hunger exists in underdeveloped countries.
7. Almost 1 in every 15 children in developing countries dies before the age of five, most of them from hunger-related causes.
8. While hunger exists worldwide, 526 million hungry people live in Asia.
9. Over a quarter of the world's undernourished people live in Sub-Saharan Africa. Almost 1 in 4 people in this region is chronically hungry.
10. When a mother is undernourished during pregnancy, the baby is often born undernourished, too. Every year, 17 million children are born this way due to a mother’s lack of nutrition before and during pregnancy.
11. Similarly, women in hunger are so deficient of basic nutrients (like iron) that 315,000 die during childbirth from hemorrhaging every year.

THINGS YOU MAY NOT KNOW: Food insecurity is increasing at an alarming rate. In 2022, nearly 258 million people across 58 countries experienced crisis-level food insecurity or worse, according to the World Food Programme (WFP). Crisis levels and above indicate that affected people have so little food that their lives or livelihoods are in immediate danger. This number of people is the highest on record and represents the fourth consecutive year of increasing acute food insecurity globally.

THINGS YOU MAY WANT TO SAVE: Your food leftovers to donate to the needy? Or eat sensibly and not pig-out while many are starving? Or create Fat Credits like Carbon Credits & fine and penalize fat people worldwide.

ZENTRAVELER SAYS: You are what you eat? Wouldn't it be great if the entire world had enough to eat? They showed african boy chewing on shoe leather? Hope you can find away to help these starving people? JUST DO IT?

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