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HUNGER ERADICATION WITH GOVERNMENT INTERVENTION

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The FAO says that about 2 billion people do not have regular access to safe, nutritious  and sufficient food. 144 million children under five are stunted. 3 billion people cannot afford the cheapest healthy diets. Many millions of people due to starvation live everyday by not knowing whether they can make it to the next day.  Studies shows that, the malnourished child's brain damage is irreversible after 1000 days. Their brains and bodies are stunted. And we can see brain volumes up to 40 % less for the malnourished when compared to a well nourished child.                      Economist Amartya Sen in 1998, won a Nobel prize for saying " guess what? Famines happen in the presence of food because people have no ability to buy it ". The reason for the hunger isn't the shortage of food it is poverty. Studies show that   Recent estimates for global  poverty  are that 8.6% of the  world ...
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HUNGER ERADICATION WITH TECHNOLOGY

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  Technology increases the speed of eradication of hunger all around the world. This blog shows you how, so stay till the end to know in an elaborated manner. We're educating people on who are food insecure. There are many TV commercials, billboards and massive donations, the engagement of big celebrities, but the ever-present sad reality is that millions of people are still going hungry. There are about 821 million people who don't get enough food i.e. 1 in 8 people on the planet. Yet we are wasting more food than ever before, An estimated 1.3 billion tonnes of food is wasted annually i.e. one-third of all food produced for human consumption, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). 27% of our landfills is food waste, that rot and produce methane gas that is harmful to the environment. There is this big social inequality between people who really need food and cannot get it and the people who have too much and simply throw it away. This shows us that HUNG...
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