World Hunger

By, Abby Hawkins

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Table of Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1.............What Causes Hunger?
Chapter 2....................... What is Food Insecurity
and Malnutrition
Chapter 3.................. How involved are Kids with
Hunger?
Chapter 4........... What are the Effects of Hunger?
Chapter 5.... What is Chronic Hunger?
Chapter 6........How You Can Help?
Glossary
Sources

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Introduction
Imagine you are waiting in line to get your one cup of nutrients for that day. Then after making it
through most of the day, you go to bed and you are hungry once again. You look down and can
see your ribcage through your stomach.
World hunger is a serious issue. Millions of people are starving around the world and in your
communitywe need to solve this issue. Hunger is a very big world issue. There are countless
organizations that help, and thousands of volunteers that help the 805 million people that are
hungry. Worldwide, the number of hungry people has dropped significantly over the past two
decades, but 805 million people continue to struggle with hunger every day. Chronic hunger is a
deadly condition, but there are still 800 million people that have chronic hunger. Nelson Mandela
said Poverty is not an accident, like slavery and apartheid it is man made and can be removed
by the actions of human beings.

This is a picture of a group of boys who are hungry and very excited that they got a piece of
bread. This is a good picture of how even though these boys have so little they still have a smile
on their face.

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Chapter One: What Causes Hunger?

There are four main causes of world hunger. One cause is poverty.
Poverty is a main contributor of world hunger, because poor people do not
have the resources whether it may be land, tools and money needed to
buy or grow food on a consistent basisthat those affected by poverty do
not have what it takes to purchase and, grow food. The second main
cause of hunger is armed conflict. War disrupts people growing and
purchasing food. Therefore During war the government spends more
money on firearms then helping feed the hungry in that certain country.
This is mainly caused because in a war food becomes a weapon. Soldiers
can kill or destroy livestock, crops, and food stock. The third main cause is
environmental overload which is over consumption from wealthier
countries and rapid population growth in developing countries. The fourth
and final main cause is discrimination. Lack of access in education, and
employment a recipe for for hunger is a racial, gender or ethnic recipe for
hunger.
The results of hunger falls mostly on children, women and elderly people.
In the final analysis hunger is caused by powerlessness.

Statistics About
World Hunger
800 million people
suffer from chronic
hunger, mainly in the
developing world.
1.02 billion people in
the developing world
die of hunger a year.
The world produces
enough food for all 7
billion people.
of all food produced

(1.3 billion tons) is

never consumed.
13.1% of the world's
population is hungry.
98% of the worlds
hunger exists in
undeveloped
countries.
315,000 women die
from hunger die during
childbirth each year.
The hungry population
of the world consumes
less than 2,100
calories a day.
The direct medical
cost for malnutrition
and hunger is an
estimated $30 billion
each year.
553 million hungry
people live in Asia or
South Pacific.

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This graph shows how many people are hungry in

certain places like; Asia and Pacific, Africa, Latin
America and Caribbean and Developed countries.

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Chapter Two: Food Insecurity and Malnutrition

Unstable prices of food prevent the poorest from getting nutritious food on a consistent basis.
This happens by food being priced good one day and the next day the prices have skyrocketed.
Food insecurity is when the food that people who are hungry eat does not meet nutritional
standards. Which is where malnutrition comes in. Malnutrition is where you have food but the
food that you have is not up to nutritional standards. For instance if the only food that can be
afforded are things like potato chips and candy. Also possibly white bread. These foods are not
very nutritious and therefore they are not getting the nutrients they need.
Most children who die of from hunger related causes are undernourished. Their bodies aren't
unable to fight common illnesses that people living a life like us could easily overcome. People
suffering with food insecurity sometimes have nutritious food but mostly they have nothing.

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Chapter Three: Chronic Hunger

Chronic hunger usually ends in premature death or if not death the person will not live up to
their full potential. People with chronic hunger will be sick more often and not earn their full
wage, resulting in another generation of chronic hunger and poverty. This is because they will
be sick because their bodies are so weak and unable to fight most sicknesses. Chronic hunger
is a deadly disease. Chronic hunger is where whoever is suffering will never have enough food
to eat. If they were to eat they would s still get hungry. This is because those suffering from
hunger mostly cannot afford nutritious food. 1 in 8 people globally suffer from world hunger.

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Chapter Four: Effects of Hunger

Hunger is a potentially deadly condition. Hunger will not affect you for a little time, it depends on
your lifestyle. If you live in poverty, hunger can potentially last forever. If your circumstances get
better than hunger will only last for a little. People can become stunted. Hunger is very effecting
1 person dies every 4 seconds. David said he was out of food by the 15th of the month with
no additional resources to purchase groceries. What he said shocked us. He had nothing in his
cabinets to eat. Not one canned food item, not one leftover from previous meals. Instead he
said, I sometimes have to resort to eating dog food.- Road Runner food bank of New Mexico.
Hunger can turn people desperate. David lived in very extreme poverty. His circumstances
were worse than we could ever imagine. That's when Roadrunner food bank swooped in to
help. They helped David very much with his circumstances.

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Chapter Five: Kids and Hunger

There are millions of kids suffering from hunger all over the world.
There are also a million deaths of children under five a year at least
half from hunger. More than 20,000 kids die each day from world
hunger. One in eight kids go to bed hungry each night. In some
countries one in three kids is underweight. A kid dies every ten
seconds from hunger. Just think about that. In 2010 an estimated 7.6
million kids died of hunger. More than 20% of children in Africa and
Asia are underweight for their age.

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Chapter Six: How You Can Help?

Donating to organizations fighting hunger is a very common easy way to
fight hunger. You dont even have to donate much, it only takes 25 cents for
WFP to give a hungry school child a cup of food with all the nutrition they
need for a day.
http://www.feedingamerica.org
https://www.freedomfromhunger.org
http://www.actionagainsthunger.org
You can volunteer at a soup kitchen or make meals.
http://www.ajustharvest.org
http://www.inspirationkitchens.org
You can help everyone suffering. Donating is just one way you can help.
Have a food drive, volunteer. The direct medical cost of hunger each year
is an estimated $30 billion each year. Now that you know all about hunger,
you should help the world fight against hunger. I encourage you to help join
the international movement. We are all humans and everybody deserves to
be treated the same. How would you like to be starving. Help give the
world food today.
Now that you know all about hunger, you should help the world fight against
hunger. I encourage you to help join the international movement. We are all
humans and everybody deserves to be treated the same. How would you
like to be starving. Help give the world food today. Now that you know all
about hunger, you should help the world fight against hunger. I encourage
you to help join the international movement. We are all humans and
everybody deserves to be treated the same. How would you like to be
starving. Help give the world

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Glossary
Chronic Hunger: chronic hunger is a serious version of
hunger and is potentially deadly
Insecurity: being unstable
International Move Movement: everybody all over the
world to end big issues
Malnutrition: lack of proper nutrition
Poverty: having little or no money, being poor
Stunted: prevented from growing or developing correctly
Swooped: came in to help

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Sources
freedomfromhunger.org
www.wfp.org/hunger/causes
dosomething.org
nokidhungry.org
roadrunnerfoodbank.org

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