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Every day an estimated 24,000 people die from hunger or hunger related causes. ... With so much “left over” food in American how is it that an estimated 800 million people around the world suffer from hunger and malnutrition? Well, first we must define the word hunger. Hunger, in this case, is not just the rumbling in ones stomach that most of us feel if we have not eaten for a few hours. For this purpose, hunger is defined as “a condition resulting from chronic under-consumption of food and/or nutritious food products. ... ” The problem of world hunger is not that there is not enough food produced in the world. “World production of grain alone is over 1.5 billion tons, enough to supply the entire world population with two pounds a day. ... People all over the world are doing the very same thing. ... The world hunger problem lies within the changing environmental conditions, population, and most of all, poverty. This paper will discuss the causes, effects and possible solutions of world hunger. There are three major causes of world hunger, changing environment conditions, population, and poverty. ... “Some one-third of the world’s cropland is loosing
topsoil at a rate that undermines its future productivity. ... The next two causes of hunger we will discuss together because they coincide, population and the poor. Population is an issue not because there are too many mouths to feed, as was stated earlier, but because the hungry people of the world are the majority who have large families and continue to increase them, thus creating hungry children. ... Why are poor people affected so much by hunger? ... But let us examine more
closely other reasons the poor across the world are so stricken with hunger. Many of the poor around the world are tenant farmers and do not own the land in which they work and live. ... ”8 Malnutrition is the most common affect of hunger.
Approximate Word count = 1605
Approximate Pages = 6.4
(250 words per page double spaced)
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