{"id":20548,"date":"2011-03-03T22:38:50","date_gmt":"2011-03-04T03:38:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/20548\/hunger\/"},"modified":"2011-03-03T22:38:50","modified_gmt":"2011-03-04T03:38:50","slug":"hunger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/20548\/hunger\/","title":{"rendered":"Hunger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color: #332d2d\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\">GLOBAL HUNGER<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #332d2d\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\">925 \tmillion people do not have enough to eat &#8211; more than the populations \tof USA, Canada and the European Union;<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><em><span style=\"color: #332d2d\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\">(Source: <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fao.org\/docrep\/012\/al390e\/al390e00.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0192ff\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\">FAO \tnews release<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/em><em><span style=\"color: #332d2d\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\">,\u00a014 \tSeptember 2010)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #332d2d\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\">98 \tpercent of the world&#8217;s hungry live in developing \tcountries;<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><em><span style=\"color: #332d2d\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\">(Source: <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fao.org\/docrep\/012\/al390e\/al390e00.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0192ff\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\">FAO \tnews release<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/em><em><span style=\"color: #332d2d\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\">, \t2010)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #332d2d\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\">Asia \tand the Pacific region is home to over half the world\u2019s population \tand nearly two thirds of the world\u2019s hungry people;<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<ul><em><span style=\"color: #332d2d\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\">(Source: <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><em><span style=\"color: #0192ff\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fao.org\/docrep\/012\/al390e\/al390e00.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">F<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fao.org\/docrep\/012\/al390e\/al390e00.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">AO \t\tnews release<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><em><span style=\"color: #332d2d\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\">, \t\t2010)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #332d2d\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\">Women \tmake up a little over half of the world&#8217;s population, but they \taccount for over 60 percent of the world\u2019s hungry.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><em><span style=\"color: #332d2d\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\">(Source: <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><em><a href=\"http:\/\/documents.wfp.org\/stellent\/groups\/public\/documents\/communications\/wfp224568.pdf\"><span style=\"color: #0192ff\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\">Strengthening \tefforts to eradicate hunger&#8230;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/em><em><span style=\"color: #332d2d\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\">, \tECOSOC, 2007)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #332d2d\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\">65 \tpercent \u00a0of the world&#8217;s hungry live in only seven countries: \tIndia, China, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Bangladesh, \tIndonesia, Pakistan and Ethiopia.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><em><span style=\"color: #332d2d\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\">(Source: <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><em><span style=\"color: #0192ff\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fao.org\/docrep\/012\/al390e\/al390e00.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">F<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fao.org\/docrep\/012\/al390e\/al390e00.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">AO \tnews release<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><em><span style=\"color: #332d2d\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\">, \t2010)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #332d2d\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\">CHILD HUNGER<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #332d2d\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\">More \tthan 70 percent of the world&#8217;s 146 million underweight children \tunder age five years live in just 10 countries, with more than 50 \tper cent located in South Asia alone;<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><em><span style=\"color: #332d2d\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\">(Source: <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unicef.org\/publications\/index_33685.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0192ff\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\">Progress \tfor Children: A Report Card on Nutrition<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/em><em><span style=\"color: #332d2d\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\">,\u00a0UNICEF, \t2006)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #332d2d\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\">10.9 \tmillion children under five die in developing countries each year. \tMalnutrition and hunger-related diseases cause 60 percent of the \tdeaths;<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><em><span style=\"color: #332d2d\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\">(Source: <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unicef.org\/sowc\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0192ff\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\">The \tState of the World&#8217;s Children<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/em><em><span style=\"color: #332d2d\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\">, \tUNICEF, 2007)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #332d2d\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\">The \tcost of undernutrition to national economic development is estimated \tat US$20-30 billion per annum;<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><em><span style=\"color: #332d2d\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\">(Source: <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unicef.org\/publications\/index_33685.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0192ff\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\">Progress \tfor Children: A Report Card on Nutrition<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/em><em><span style=\"color: #332d2d\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\">, \tUNICEF, 2006)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #332d2d\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\">One \tout of four children &#8211; roughly 146 million &#8211; in developing countries \tare underweight;<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><em><span style=\"color: #332d2d\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\">(Source: <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unicef.org\/sowc\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #0192ff\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\">The \tState of the World&#8217;s Children<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/em><em><span style=\"color: #332d2d\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\">, \tUNICEF,\u00a02007)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #332d2d\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\">Every \tyear WFP feeds more than 20 million children in school feeding \tprogrammes in some 70 countries. In 2008, WFP fed a record 23 \tmillion children.<br \/>\n(Source: WFP School Feeding Unit)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GLOBAL HUNGER 925 million people do not have enough to eat &#8211; more than the populations of USA, Canada and the European Union; (Source: FAO news release,\u00a014 September 2010) 98 percent of the world&#8217;s hungry live in developing countries; (Source: FAO news release, 2010) Asia and the Pacific region is home to over half the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}