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1. What is the definition of poverty?

2. What are the different types of poverty?

3. What is the poverty line?

4. What is the definition of hunger?

5. What are the different types of hunger?

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Poverty is when people don't have access to the basic essentials of life. When a country is not economically developed, this means that most of its people live in poor conditions.

Most of the people living in poverty don't have a proper house to live in, access to clean water and nutritious food as well as

health care services. Each country has certain conditions to measure the number of people living in poverty.

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people in poverty cant eat because of the lack of food the same in hunger they both lack racecourses like clean water and quality food.

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What are the different Types of poverty 

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What are the different Types of poverty 

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There are alot of types of poverty

1-Case poverty:

This type of poverty is caused by an inability to work so this will make them unable to support themselves and their family and this will make his children also in case poverty. This is a cycle

2-Collective poverty:

Collective poverty is a permanent type it is caused by people who suffer from poor health or severe injuries like ASI

injuries.

3-Cyclical poverty:

When there are food shortages caused by natural disasters so it makes people's stuff flew or got ripped by this disaster so this will make them live in poor conditions which is poverty.

4-Income poverty:

Income of poverty is the lack of the main resources for living a standard life like food, water and a proper shelter.

5-Generational poverty:

Generational poverty is often caused by some issues such as discrimination, not accessing good quality education and healthcare services.

6-Absolute poverty:

Absolute poverty is caused by natural disasters, war and conflict or the lack of access to education.

7- Systemic Poverty:

Systemic Poverty is caused by Gender Inequality or discrimination. That's by they maybe dont get good education which causes bad employment which causes low salary. which means poverty.

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1. What are the causes of poverty?

2. What is the impact of poverty on people's physical and mental health?

3. What is the impact of poverty on the community and different countries?

4. What are the causes hunger?

5. What are the impacts of hunger on people's physical and mental health?

6. What is the effect of hunger on community and different countries?

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Poverty line is defined by the minimum house come level needed to have your basic resources to live a standard life like food, water, proper shelter and clothing.

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Natural Disasters= Poverty, and hunger

people in poverty sometimes live in urban decay and urban decay sometimes happens from natural disasters

Poverty=hunger

People in poverty can't eat because the lack of food the same in hunger they both lack the resources like clean water and quality food.

Discrimination=poverty

People can discriminate people in poverty because of their poor status, race or even their clothes and public appearance.

Wars=poverty

When a country losses a war a couple of people may live in poverty because of the warNatural Disasters= Poverty, and hunger

people in poverty sometimes live in urban decay and urban decay sometimes happens from natural disasters

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1. What is our responsibilities to achieve SDG1 - No poverty?

2. What is our responsibility to achieve SDG 2 - Zero hunger?

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I see poverty in my daily life one time I was going to fajr training and i saw someone sleeping on the street and one time i saw a old man when we gave him 100 pounds he said now i can finally buy food for my family.

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Did you now that i used to think that poverty was just being poor with no house or hunger not having food on the table but i realized it was way more so lets dive in.

1: ending poverty: ending poverty is a crucial necessity that can help us in the futter so that's why its so important to invest in it so examples: (helping us in space, businesses) and more. we can end it by contacting organizations or communities to help us like an organization called [WTF] its an organization that if we contact and other organizations to help we can solve poverty did you now it would take $70 and $325 billon dollars per year to solve world hunger by 2030.

2: zero hunger: ending hunger is the crucial just like solving poverty as they also can help us we can solve by supporting local farmers donating nutritious food. We can also contact [WTF] and other communities/organizations to help did you it would take around $23 billion dollars to end poverty according to Oxfam.

3: what is poverty: poverty is when some one is unable to support himself or family because of the lack of resources.

what is hunger: hunger is when someone lacks clean water or food.

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Introduction
U.S. Department of Agriculture; photo, Jack Schneider

People who are poor are said to be living in poverty. Poverty can be defined and measured in different ways. In general, however, people suffering from poverty do not have the money and possessions that are necessary to give them an adequate standard of living. Typically, poverty involves a lack of, or an insufficient amount of, the three primary physical needs-food, clothing, and shelter.

In the United States during 2012, any family of four with an annual cash income of less than $23,492 (before taxes) was considered poor. The dollar amount was called the poverty line, an economic measuring rod devised in 1964. The line was set at threetimes the amount needed to provide the cheapest nutritionally balanced diet. The poverty line is adjusted annually for inflation.

While the poverty line in the United States was more than $23,000, the median annual household income in Haiti was $2,735, in Indonesia $2,199, in Rwanda $1,101, and in Liberia $781. Any family in those countries with an income of $23,000 would be considered wealthy. During the Great Depression in the United States, when half the population was considered poor, a family with an income at the 2012 poverty line could easily afford to buy a house, a car, clothing, and food.

The severity of poverty varies depending on the economic vitality of the country in which it occurs. In more economically developed countries, such as Japan, Australia, and the countries of Europe and North America, there are many government services provided to alleviate poverty. In addition, the homeless of many cities can often find some shelter and a mission offering free meals. Less economically developed countries, however, have fewer resources to devote to helping the poor. The needy in these places may have an even more difficult experience because they cannot rely on public assistance.

Families below the poverty line in the United States

Types of Poverty
To those who are poor, poverty would seem to have no differences. But several kinds of poverty have been described. They are based on such factors as duration (how long the condition lasts) and distribution (how widespread it is). Each type of poverty is a response to different social or economic circumstances.

Cyclical Poverty
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Cyclical poverty may be widespread, but it lasts for a limited time. In developing countries, cyclical poverty typically involves food shortages caused by natural disasters such as floods or drought. In developed (or industrialized) countries, cyclical poverty is caused mainly by variations in the business cycle. The economies of these countries go through periods of prosperity and recession, commonly referred to as "boom and bust." When an economic slump occurs, as happened in 2007-09-and most seriously in the Great Depression of the 1930s-many workers lose their jobs. In 1935, for example, there were about 20 million people unemployed in the United States. When the economy revives, cyclical poverty tends to disappear.

Significant changes in industrial economies have led to what is called structural unemployment. Such loss of jobs results not so much from an economic slump as from technological innovations that change the structure of the economy. One example is automation, the process in which machines take over tasks that had been performed by people. Many workers find themselves with skills for which there are no jobs, while some jobs remain unfilled because workers with the proper skills cannot be found. Structural unemployment may last many years before workers can be retrained or move to a new labor market. Whole regions of some countries-such as coal-mining, steel-producing, and shipbuilding areas-have been hurt by changes in labor markets.

Collective Poverty
Collective poverty affects a large number of people for a long period of time. Because this type of poverty is persistent, it is also called permanent poverty. Collective poverty may be passed on from generation to generation, from parents to their children. People living in collective poverty typically suffer from poor health and have low life expectancies.

Collective poverty is common in large geographic regions where economic development is low. Whole countries or sections of the world can be classified as poor. Collective poverty affects most of Africa south of the Sahara. It is also widespread in parts of Asia, the Middle East, Central America, and South America. Within a country, too, there are often extensive pockets of poverty that endure for generations. Such regions include Appalachia in the eastern United States, the northern section of England, and southern Italy. Collective poverty can also be concentrated in sections of cities where economic and educational opportunities are limited.

Case Poverty
Case poverty involves individuals or families who are unable to support themselves even when the society around them is generally prospering. This type of poverty is often caused by an inability to work. People suffering from case poverty may, for example, be chronically ill or physically or emotionally disabled.

Reducing Poverty
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The most effective way to reduce poverty is through economic development. In developing countries, efforts to address poverty may focus on expanding agriculture, industry, or both. Economic growth requires a larger labor force, giving more people the chance to earn enough money to lift themselves out of poverty. Such growth can be difficult to achieve, however. In the poorest countries, governments, like the people, are poverty stricken. They owe large sums of money that they have borrowed from richer countries. The interest they have to pay on these debts limits their ability to invest in economic development. In addition, the limited resources in these countries are often spread unevenly among the population. There is a wide gap between the many people who are poor and the few who are wealthy. Even if the economy improves, the gains may not lead to an improved standard of living for the poor. Problems with economic inequality can also occur in developed countries.

Developed countries have tried to deal with poverty by increasing the participation of the poor in the economy. For example, governments may encourage new industry and offer programs to improve the job skills of poor people. Most developed countries also have programs that try to limit the ill effects of economic downturns. They may provide payments to those who lost their jobs through no fault of their own. The goal of unemployment insurance is to prevent the recipients from falling into poverty before they can find work. Other welfare programs assist needy people who are not covered by unemployment insurance or other benefits. Such programs may help the poor buy food, find housing, or obtain health care.

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Before these figures can be meaningfully compared, they need to be converted into common units.

International dollars (int.-$) are a hypothetical currency that is used for this. It is the result of adjusting both for inflation within countries over time and for differences in the cost of living between countries.

The goal of international-$ is to provide a unit whose purchasing power is held fixed over time and across countries, such that one int.-$ can buy the same quantity and quality of goods and services no matter where or when it is spent.

The price level in the US is used as the benchmark - or 'numeraire' - so that one 2017 int.-$ is defined as the value of goods and services that one US dollar would buy in the US in 2017. Similarly, one 2011 int.-$ is defined as the value of goods and services that one US dollar would buy in the US in 2011.

The year 2017 (2011) here indicates two things, related to the two adjustments mentioned. Firstly, it tells us the base year used for the inflation adjustment within countries. This is the year whose prices are chosen to be the benchmark. If prices are higher than this benchmark year, nominal data will be adjusted downwards. If prices are lower, nominal data will be adjusted upwards. In the base year itself, the nominal and inflation-adjusted figures are the same by definition.

Secondly, 2017 (2011) indicates the year in which the differences in the cost of living between countries was assessed.

Purchasing Power Parity rates

Converting data in local currencies to international-$ means dividing the figures by a set of 'exchange' rates, known as Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) rates. Unlike the exchange rates between currencies you would see at the foreign exchange counter, these account for differences in the cost of living between countries.

If you have ever shopped or eaten in a restaurant abroad, you may have noticed a country as being a particularly expensive or particularly cheap place to live. A given amount of your own currency, when exchanged for another country's currency, may buy you considerably more or less there than it would have done at home.

The goal of PPP rates is to account for these price differences. They express, for each country, the amount of local currency that is needed to buy the same goods and services there as 1 US dollar buys in the US.

You can read more about this in our article What are PPP adjustments and why do we need them?

The 'rounds' of the International Comparison Program

The calculation of PPP rates is the task of the International Comparison Program (ICP), which gathers data on the prices of thousands of goods and services in each country in a particular year.

The ICP does not calculate PPP rates every year, but rather conducts its work in 'rounds' that are several years apart. The most recent round was conducted in 2017 and the previous round was conducted in 2011.

In converting economic data to international-$, which round of PPPs are used to adjust for cost-of-living differences between countries is, in principle, a separate issue to the base year used to adjust for inflation over time. By convention, however, the same year tends to be chosen for both. When converted to 2017 international-$, nominal local currencies are first adjusted for inflation to local 2017 prices, and are then adjusted to US prices using the PPPs calculated in the ICP's 2017 round. Likewise, 2011 international-$ adjust for inflation using 2011 local prices, and then use the 2011 PPPs to adjust for cost-of-living differences.

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Total population living in extreme poverty by world region

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Extreme poverty is defined as living below the International Poverty Line of $2.15 per day.

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Poverty can happen from lots of different ways such as, natural disasters when natural disasters happen it causes urban decay which can lead to poverty.

It can also happen when someone gets unemployed and can't get back on their feet which lets them get no money and by the time he will have a very low amount of money which will make them below the poverty line so they will be considered poor.

Another cause of poverty is stock market if you invest all your money when the stock market is going down you lose all your money and may go in poverty.

Poverty can also happen because of wars as when they become refuges and when they become refuges they become unemployed and the other country may discriminate them and they go into the poverty cycle.

inequality can cause poverty as they can pay them less, treat them worse and a lot of other stuff.

climate change can cause poverty for the people that cant adapt.

low wages black people are discriminated for their race or skin color so they get low wages which Leeds to poverty

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Hunger is when a group of people lack food and important resources, they lack nutrients and vitamins in their diet, leading to health problems. Lacking nutritious food because of hunger people fall in a deep hole full depression.

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Famine: A famine is described as the most serious kind of hunger disaster, this type of hunger is very rare but when it happen that means that they reached the maximum of food shortage in this country, and several people are dying every day from hunger.

It is caused by many factors like war and natural disasters.

Food insecurity: It's when people don't have enough to eat and don't know where they will find their next meal. This may be due to unavailability of food and lack of resources to get food. Which can lead to an increase in food poverty.

Malnutrition: Malnutrition is an imbalance between the nutrients your body needs and the nutrients it gets. It can mean undernutrition and overnutrition. You can be sick from the lack of calories. It relates to hunger by if someone who doesn't get enough food often experiences hunger. If you do this over and over it will lead to malnutrition. More than 25 million kids under five suffer from malnutrition. That means these 25million cant get enough nutrients to build their body.

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What is the impact of poverty on our physical health?

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What is the impact of poverty on our physical health?

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Poverty impacts physical health by not accessing it to healthcare, causing poor nutrition, and increasing stress. People in poverty may live in unhealthy environments, have less opportunity for exercise, and face higher risks of chronic diseases and injuries. These factors create a cycle, worsening health and financial challenges.

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What is the impact of poverty on our mental health?

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What is the impact of poverty on our mental health?

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It makes people have higher levels of stress and anxiety. Children growing in poverty have a very high chance of getting mental health problems and they will not have money to pay for treatments. Mental health problems can cause Schizophrenia

which is when you have a breakdown between thought, emotion and behavior leading to inappropriate actions or feelings.

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Because of past generations, Children who grow up in poverty have a very big chance of low birth weight, because the mother doesn't eat a lot because she skips meals because of the lack of food which mostly leads to physical and mental disabilities. In some developing countries. Poverty makes new born children more likely to lose their life in their first month.

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What Is Poverty?

The term poverty refers to the state or condition in which people or communities lack the financial resources and essentials for a minimum standard of living. As such, their basic human needs cannot be met. People and families who live in poverty may go without proper housing, clean water, healthy food, and medical attention. Each nation may have its own criteria for determining the poverty line and counting how many of its people live in poverty. Poverty is a socioeconomic condition that is the result of multiple factors-not just income. These factors include race, sexual identity, sexual orientation, and little to no access to education, among others.

Understanding Poverty

Poverty refers to the lack of adequate financial resources such that individuals, households, and entire communities don't have the means to subsist or acquire the basic necessities for a flourishing life. This means being so poor as to struggle to obtain food, clothing, shelter, and medicines.

Poverty is both an individual concern as well as a broader social problem. On the individual or household level, not being able to make ends meet can lead to a range of physical and mental issues. At the societal level, high poverty rates can be a damper on economic growth and be associated with problems like crime, unemployment, urban decay, education, and poor health.

Governments often put social welfare programs in place to help lift individuals, families, and communities out of poverty. Some countries have stronger welfare states (social safety nets) than others. For instance, the U.S. tends to be much more individualistic and shuns welfare programs. European countries, in comparison, have a much broader range of welfare programs and support for those in need.

Aspects of Poverty

Poverty in the U.S.

Poverty status in the United States is assigned to people who do not meet a certain income threshold, which is set by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Poverty rates in the United States, or the percentage of the U.S. population living in poverty, are calculated by the U.S. Census Bureau.

When measuring poverty, the U.S. Census Bureau excludes the following people:

Institutionalized people

People living in military quarters

People living in college dormitories

Individuals under the age of 15

Each year, the Census Bureau updates its poverty threshold statistics. The table below shows the 2022 income thresholds for those in poverty. Each column represents the number of people living in a household under the age of 18.

In 2022, the poverty income threshold for a family of four with two children under the age of 18 is $29,678 per year.

In 2022, for two people over age 65 with no children under 18, the poverty threshold comes in at $17,689 per year.

We can see that the income level for the poverty threshold increases for families with more children under 18.

The poverty thresholds, as well as the number of children under the age of 18 in a home, are important because they help determine how government aid can be allocated, such as food assistance and medical care. The measurement for those in poverty uses pretax income or income before taxes are taken out by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).

Global Poverty

Poverty has decreased in developed countries since the Industrial Revolution. Increased production reduced the cost of goods, making them more affordable, while advancements in agriculture increased crop yields, as well as food production.

The international poverty line is a monetary threshold under which an individual is considered to be living in poverty. This figure is calculated by taking the poverty threshold from each country-given the value of the goods needed to sustain one adult-and converting it into U.S. dollars. The current international poverty line is $2.15 per day.

Many people around the globe still struggle to make ends meet. According to the World Bank, an estimated 719 million people lived in extreme poverty-defined as surviving on less than the $2.15 per day line-by the end of 2020.

It's estimated that more than 40% of the world's population lives in poverty, with the United States scoring the highest among developed nations. According to a report from Frontiers, communities of color are more susceptible to poverty because of "racist notions of racial inferiority and frequent denial of the structural forms of racism and classism" globally and within the U.S.

Poverty and Children

The impact of poverty on children is substantial. Children who grow up in poverty typically suffer from severe and frequent health problems; infants born into poverty have an increased chance of low birth weight, which can lead to physical and mental disabilities.

In certain developing countries, poverty-stricken infants are nine times more likely to die in their first month compared to babies born in high-income countries. Those who live may have hearing and vision problems.

Children in poverty tend to miss more school due to sickness and endure more stress at home. Homelessness is particularly hard on children because they often have little to no access to healthcare and lack proper nutrition, which often results in frequent health issues.

What Causes Poverty?

Poverty is a difficult cycle to break and often passes from one generation to the next. It is often determined by socioeconomic status, ethnicity, gender, and geography. Many people are born into poverty and have little hope of overcoming it. Others may fall into poverty because of negative economic conditions, natural disasters, or surging living costs, as well as drug addiction, depression, and mental health issues.

Access to good schools, healthcare, electricity, clean drinking water, and other critical services remains elusive for many and is often determined by socioeconomic status, gender, ethnicity, and geography. Other root causes of poverty include:

For those able to move out of poverty, progress is often temporary. Economic shocks, food insecurity, and climate change threaten their gains and may force them back into poverty.

Typical consequences of poverty include alcohol and substance abuse, little to no access to education, poor housing and living conditions, and increased levels of disease. Heightened poverty is likely to cause increased tensions in society as inequality increases. These issues often lead to rising crime rates in communities affected by poverty.

Discrimination and Poverty

As noted above, poverty isn't simply related to income levels. In fact, there are a number of factors that can push people into or below the poverty line. Discrimination is just one of those issues. Put simply, people are prevented from living with and enjoying certain rights because of who they are. Here's why.

In some cases, governments may put certain laws and regulations that prevent certain individuals or communities from accessing services, such as healthcare, education, or social services. They may also be denied access to the labor market and/or housing, which can prevent them from reaching a suitable standard of living. In other cases, deep-rooted societal beliefs can isolate individuals, families, and entire communities.

Some of the most common groups of people who may experience this type of discrimination include (but aren't limited to):

People living with HIV/AIDS

Black, Indigenous, and People of Color

Women, including single mothers

Members of the LGBTQ+ community

According to statistics from the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law, poverty rates among members of the LGBTQ+ community have dropped since the COVID-19 pandemic. But rates are still higher than those who don't identify as LGBTQ+. The most recent report showed that:

17% of LGBT people in the U.S. lived in poverty in 2021 compared to 12% in non-LGBT communities

21% of transgender people lived in poverty in the U.S. in 2021 compared to 20% of cisgender bisexual women

26% of LGBT families with children experienced poverty in 2021

The report also indicated that LGBTQ+ people of color-notably, "Black, Latinx/Hispanic, Native Hawaiian/ Pacific Islander (NH/PI), American Indian/Alaskan Native (AI/AN), and Multiracial people"-are more likely to experience poverty compared to White or Asian Americans.

How Poverty Is Measured

Poverty is commonly measured using income thresholds in many countries, including the United States. Centralized bodies like the Census Bureau collect data and update the information on an annual basis based on inflation. This information, which is reported through the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U), generally includes income thresholds compiled from different sizes and types of families/households. Each family member in a household that falls under the threshold is considered to be in poverty, according to the Census Bureau.

Certain types of individuals are not included in the count as their level of poverty cannot be determined. These groups include:

People within certain group settings like prisons and nursing homes

Individuals living in military barracks

Those living in college dorms

People under the age of 15 whose income cannot be determined

Keep in mind that using income thresholds is just one way that countries measure poverty. But there are other ways to determine who lives above and below the poverty line. Some countries may use an absolute figure like the one used by the World Bank. As noted above, the organization determined that people who live below the $2.15-per-day limit are in poverty.

How to Reduce Poverty

The United Nations and the World Bank are major advocates of reducing world poverty. The World Bank has an ambitious target of reducing poverty to less than 3% of the global population by 2030. Some of the actionable plans to eliminate poverty include the following:

Installing wells that provide access to clean drinking water

Educating farmers on how to produce more food

Constructing shelter for those in need

Building schools to educate disadvantaged communities

Providing enhanced access to better healthcare services by building medical clinics and hospitals

For poverty to be eradicated as the World Bank sets out to do, communities, governments, and corporations need to collaborate to implement strategies that improve living conditions for the world's poor. Among these strategies may include boosting socioeconomic conditions, fighting and eliminating systemic racism, establishing minimum wages that align with the cost of living, providing paid leave, and promoting pay equity among other things.

What Countries Have the Highest Poverty Rates?

Which States Have the Highest Poverty Rates?

Can Poverty Be Solved?

The Bottom Line

Poverty is defined as the state or condition where people and communities cannot meet a minimum standard of living because they lack the proper resources. These include (but aren't limited to) financial resources, basic healthcare and education, clean drinking water, and infrastructure. Living in the socioeconomic condition of poverty is a result of multiple factors not simply including race, sexual identity, sexual orientation, and access to education, among others. Organizations like the United Nations and the World Bank, which say that poverty will continue to grow well beyond 2030, urge nations to fight poverty by implementing policies and regulations that can drastically improve the quality of living for all communities.

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What's Poverty? Meaning, Causes, and How to Measure

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The world produces enough food to feed all 7.5 billion people, yet more than 10% of the population goes hungry each day.

Since 2020, after years of progress towards zero hunger, numbers once again are on the rise.

A lot of this was due to the knock-on effects of COVID-19, but that's not the whole story.

Conflict and the worsening climate crisis, together with the ongoing effects of a global pandemic, have worked together to undermine the fight against hunger.

These issues also underscore some of the other top causes of world hunger.

Here are ten of those causes, what Concern is doing to address them, and how you can help.

Poverty and hunger go hand in hand. Parents and caregivers experiencing poverty usually can't afford enough food to feed themselves and their children - and, if they can, they often aren't able to afford nutrient-rich foods.

In turn, undernourishment makes it difficult for children to focus in school, hindering their chances of breaking what is often an intergenerational cycle of poverty. Parents (especially mothers) who skip meals so that their children have enough to eat may also struggle with working to earn enough money to keep food on the table. It's a vicious cycle.

We can see the link between poverty and hunger play out in larger statistics: The Democratic Republic of Congo is one of the world's poorest countries. In 2022, nearly 62% of the country's 60 million residents lived below the poverty line. Earlier this year, the UN estimated that 43% of all Congolese are also living below the hunger line in a crisis that is only expected to grow.

Across regions like the Sahel and the Horn of Africa, farming families experience periods before harvests known as hunger seasons. These are the times of year when food supplies from the previous harvest are exhausted, but the next harvest is still a ways off. This leaves families forced to skip one (or more) meals each day in the period before the next harvest, which could be months away.

We've also seen food shortages increase in the last few years as the results of COVID-19 and the crisis in Ukraine. Border closures intended to curb the pandemic and trade routes interrupted due to conflict have prevented critical supplies from getting where they're needed most. Read on to learn how the situation in Ukraine, for instance, has fed the hunger crisis in Somalia.

Conflict and hunger form another vicious cycle.

A history of conflict has played out in tandem with a history of hunger in South Sudan. More than a decade of civil war has led to mass displacement and abandoned fields, meaning crops and harvests have failed. Conflict also has an economic impact: It often leads to soaring inflation rates that make imported (or even local) foods unaffordable for many residents.

International conflicts also carry a large impact. Pre-war, Ukraine and Russia exported 25% of the world's wheat supplies. Somalia, Sudan, and South Sudan rely on this region - more than 8,000 km away - for staples. Those supply chains have been interrupted due to the conflict, and have left millions of people, including those affected by the ongoing drought in Horn of Africa, without a key lifeline.

Countries like Malawi enjoy relative peace and political stability. However, climate change is also a major cause of hunger, with each shock setting the most vulnerable people and communities further and further back.

Too little - or too much - rainfall can destroy harvests or reduce the amount of animal pasture available. These fluctuations are made worse by the El Niño weather system, and are likely to only get worse in the future. Extreme climate patterns also tend to affect the poorest regions of the world the most: The World Bank estimates that climate change has the power to push more than 100 million people into poverty over the next decade.

In order to thrive, humans need a range of foods providing a variety of essential health benefits. We mentioned above that families living in poverty often get food lower in nutrients. That's because many of these families rely on just one or two staple foods, like corn or wheat, for the majority of their meals. As a result, they don't get enough critical macronutrients and vitamins. Even if they feel full, they may still be suffering the effects of hunger, particularly malnutrition.

Nutrition is especially important for pregnant and breastfeeding women, as well as young children. Mums-to-be who don't get enough vitamins and minerals during their pregnancy may "pass on" malnutrition to their children. If a child does not have the adequate nutritional support during their first 1,000 days between conception and their second birthday, they may also suffer lifetime health and developmental ramifications.

Systemic problems, like poor infrastructure or low investment in agriculture, often prevent food and water from reaching the populations that need them the most. This is especially true in fragile contexts. Many of the world's hungriest countries also experience some form of political instability or conflict. Political leaders often focus limited resources on these emergencies rather than the silent ones like hunger.

This can become further exacerbated if another disaster hits, creating a complex humanitarian crisis. With decades of crisis in Somalia, the latest drought to affect the region is one example of a complex emergency, one that - even with the long spring rain season delivering water to the area - could still lead to a famine.

After two civil wars and the 2014-16 Ebola outbreak, Liberia 's economy was left weakened by back-to-back crises.

Seven years after the end of the Ebola epidemic, more than 50% of Liberians still live below the poverty line. It also ranks as the eighth hungriest country in the world, with a 2022 Global Hunger Index score of 32.4.

Inflation as the result of a bad economy means that, even if food is available and people have jobs, they may not be able to afford even the most basic staples. Last year, the cost of a food basket rose by 66% in Ethiopia, and 36% in Somalia.

According to the World Food Programme, over 1 billion tonnes of food produced is never consumed. That's equivalent to us throwing out one-third of the global food supply every year.

What's more, producing this wasted food also uses other natural resources that, when threatened, have a ripple effect in the countries that are already hit hardest by hunger, poverty, and climate change. Producing this wasted food requires an amount of water equal to the annual flow of Russia's Volga River, and nearly 3 billion tonnes of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere.

The UN notes that if female farmers had the same access to resources as their male counterparts, the number of hungry people in the world could be reduced by up to 150 million. Female farmers are responsible for growing, harvesting, preparing, and selling the majority of food in poor countries, and they're just one example of the many ways that hunger is a women's issue.

Women are on the frontlines of the fight against hunger, yet they are frequently underrepresented at the forums where important decisions on policy and resources are made.

Hunger can be a cause of forced migration. Forced migration can also be a cause of hunger. Refugees and internally-displaced people living in displacement camps or informal communities are often legally or linguistically prevented from getting work to support their families while away from home (many refugees are also women and children, which means their options are even more limited).

Many refugees live in neighbouring countries, countries with limited resources to begin with. Some of the hungriest countries in the world are also among the largest host communities or have high rates of internal displacement. Food aid helps, but the problem of hunger and migration can only be resolved with a political solution.

How Concern addresses the causes of world hunger

From Afghanistan to Ukraine, Concern's Health and Nutrition programmes are designed to address the specific, intersectional causes of world hunger in each unique context. We work with displaced communities to deliver food supplies, as well as to help migrants build skills (including home gardening) and find sources of income that empower them to keep food on the table.

Programmes like Lifesaving Education and Assistance to Farmers (LEAF) support farmers affected by climate change to improve their harvests using Climate Smart Agriculture techniques, while also addressing existing cases of malnutrition in the community via our standard-setting programme, Community Management of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM). Thanks to LEAF, food aid was not needed in one region of Kenya for the first time in 30 years.

You can help us in the fight against hunger. Last year alone, Concern was able to reach 8.3 million people with lifesaving and life-changing Health and Nutrition initiatives. With $0.93 out of every dollar going directly into our programmes, your tax-deductible donation to Concern means that we can reach even more next year.

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For decades, global hunger was on the decline. But now, due to conflict, climate change, global inequality, and other factors, famine threatens to return.

The Definition of Famine

A famine is defined as the most severe kind of hunger crisis. It is very rare, but when it does occur, it means that there is an extreme shortage of food and several children and adults within a certain area are dying of hunger on a daily basis.

Some deadly emergencies happen suddenly, like earthquakes, floods, and other natural disasters. This is not the case with famine. A famine happens slowly, caused by long-term conflict, climate shocks, extreme poverty, and other drivers. Famines are never inevitable - they are always predictable, preventable, and man-made.
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Famine Conditions

Famine is a technical term - it is only officially declared when a series of specific food insecurity, mortality, and malnutrition criteria are met.

How is famine declared?

To declare a famine, the world turns to the Integrated Phase Classification (IPC) system, a framework involving governments, UN agencies, organizations like Action Against Hunger, civil society, and other relevant partners. Together, using the IPC's scientific standards and analytical approach, partners classify the severity and magnitude of food crises in a country.

The IPC has five phases for hunger crises, ranging from Phase 1 (Minimal/None) to Phase 5 (Catastrophic/Famine), and each has its own set of technical criteria.

The key to understanding food emergencies is data - and a lot of it. Action Against Hunger and our partners carry out food security and nutrition surveys to gather information on food availability, malnutrition levels, and mortality rates.

All of the data is then collected and analyzed, and IPC partners agree on the overall results and conclusions. If a country, or part of a country, meets famine (IPC Phase 5) criteria, then each partner - including the country's government - must reach a consensus on these findings before famine is declared. At times, famine declarations can become political decisions, rather than humanitarian ones.

Before and after a famine is declared, the goal of the IPC system is to trigger action to prevent hunger crises from deteriorating further and to save lives. But, though it is a very helpful tool, the system is far from perfect.

Often, the same conditions that cause hunger are the ones that make it incredibly difficult to gather the data needed to determine if famine is occurring.

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Conflict Drives Hunger Crises

Conflict is the top driver of hunger. Violence and insecurity put civilians in danger, while making it unsafe for humanitarians to assess the severity of a food crisis and to reach communities most in need of support. Sadly, this means that there are times when famine is suspected - even likely - but there is not enough information to confirm it.

When was the last famine?

There have been just two famines in the 21st century. In 2011, in the midst of a severe drought and conflict, famine was declared in Somalia after an estimated 250,000 people died. In 2017, after years of civil war, parts of South Sudan were found to be experiencing famine.

For months before both of these famines were declared, the United Nations and humanitarian organizations warned of the deteriorating humanitarian crises. Aid eventually came but, for hundreds of thousands of malnourished children and families, it arrived too slowly.

Is famine still a concern today?

After many years of progress in the global fight against hunger, a combination of factors - conflict, climate change, and global inequality - driven millions of people to the brink of starvation.

According to the United Nations, right now, an all-time high of as many as 49 million people in 46 countries could be at risk of falling into famine if they do not get urgent assistance. The countries at highest risk of famine in 2022 are Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan, and Yemen.

While famine hasn't been declared - and it may never be - the warning bells are now ringing, and the world must listen. We cannot wait for an official famine designation to take action to save lives.

How we help communities facing famine

We provide lifesaving treatment to severely malnourished children and delivering emergency cash, food, and clean water. Our teams also help to assess the severity of food crises by surveying communities and supplying and analyzing data.

Our teams also research better ways to understand, prevent, and address hunger crises, advocate for greater humanitarian access to communities in need, and push world leaders to take action to create a world free from hunger.

Donate Now

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We take decisive action against the causes and effects of hunger.

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For decades, global hunger was on the decline. But now, due to conflict, climate change, global inequality, and other factors, famine threatens to return.

The Definition of Famine

A famine is defined as the most severe kind of hunger crisis. It is very rare, but when it does occur, it means that there is an extreme shortage of food and several children and adults within a certain area are dying of hunger on a daily basis.

Some deadly emergencies happen suddenly, like earthquakes, floods, and other natural disasters. This is not the case with famine. A famine happens slowly, caused by long-term conflict, climate shocks, extreme poverty, and other drivers. Famines are never inevitable - they are always predictable, preventable, and man-made.
Download 10 Facts About Hunger >>

Famine Conditions

Famine is a technical term - it is only officially declared when a series of specific food insecurity, mortality, and malnutrition criteria are met.

How is famine declared?

To declare a famine, the world turns to the Integrated Phase Classification (IPC) system, a framework involving governments, UN agencies, organizations like Action Against Hunger, civil society, and other relevant partners. Together, using the IPC's scientific standards and analytical approach, partners classify the severity and magnitude of food crises in a country.

The IPC has five phases for hunger crises, ranging from Phase 1 (Minimal/None) to Phase 5 (Catastrophic/Famine), and each has its own set of technical criteria.

The key to understanding food emergencies is data - and a lot of it. Action Against Hunger and our partners carry out food security and nutrition surveys to gather information on food availability, malnutrition levels, and mortality rates.

All of the data is then collected and analyzed, and IPC partners agree on the overall results and conclusions. If a country, or part of a country, meets famine (IPC Phase 5) criteria, then each partner - including the country's government - must reach a consensus on these findings before famine is declared. At times, famine declarations can become political decisions, rather than humanitarian ones.

Before and after a famine is declared, the goal of the IPC system is to trigger action to prevent hunger crises from deteriorating further and to save lives. But, though it is a very helpful tool, the system is far from perfect.

Often, the same conditions that cause hunger are the ones that make it incredibly difficult to gather the data needed to determine if famine is occurring.

KEEP UP WITH THE ACTION

Receive the latest news direct from our lifesaving teams.

If opting in to receive SMS updates, you can expect to receive no more than 3 messages a month. Message and data rates may apply. Text "STOP" at any time to opt out.

Conflict Drives Hunger Crises

Conflict is the top driver of hunger. Violence and insecurity put civilians in danger, while making it unsafe for humanitarians to assess the severity of a food crisis and to reach communities most in need of support. Sadly, this means that there are times when famine is suspected - even likely - but there is not enough information to confirm it.

When was the last famine?

There have been just two famines in the 21st century. In 2011, in the midst of a severe drought and conflict, famine was declared in Somalia after an estimated 250,000 people died. In 2017, after years of civil war, parts of South Sudan were found to be experiencing famine.

For months before both of these famines were declared, the United Nations and humanitarian organizations warned of the deteriorating humanitarian crises. Aid eventually came but, for hundreds of thousands of malnourished children and families, it arrived too slowly.

Is famine still a concern today?

After many years of progress in the global fight against hunger, a combination of factors - conflict, climate change, and global inequality - driven millions of people to the brink of starvation.

According to the United Nations, right now, an all-time high of as many as 49 million people in 46 countries could be at risk of falling into famine if they do not get urgent assistance. The countries at highest risk of famine in 2022 are Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan, and Yemen.

While famine hasn't been declared - and it may never be - the warning bells are now ringing, and the world must listen. We cannot wait for an official famine designation to take action to save lives.

How we help communities facing famine

We provide lifesaving treatment to severely malnourished children and delivering emergency cash, food, and clean water. Our teams also help to assess the severity of food crises by surveying communities and supplying and analyzing data.

Our teams also research better ways to understand, prevent, and address hunger crises, advocate for greater humanitarian access to communities in need, and push world leaders to take action to create a world free from hunger.

Donate Now

How we fight hunger

We take decisive action against the causes and effects of hunger.

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The world produces enough food to feed all 7.5 billion people, yet more than 10% of the population goes hungry each day.

Since 2020, after years of progress towards zero hunger, numbers once again are on the rise.

A lot of this was due to the knock-on effects of COVID-19, but that's not the whole story.

Conflict and the worsening climate crisis, together with the ongoing effects of a global pandemic, have worked together to undermine the fight against hunger.

These issues also underscore some of the other top causes of world hunger.

Here are ten of those causes, what Concern is doing to address them, and how you can help.

Poverty and hunger go hand in hand. Parents and caregivers experiencing poverty usually can't afford enough food to feed themselves and their children - and, if they can, they often aren't able to afford nutrient-rich foods.

In turn, undernourishment makes it difficult for children to focus in school, hindering their chances of breaking what is often an intergenerational cycle of poverty. Parents (especially mothers) who skip meals so that their children have enough to eat may also struggle with working to earn enough money to keep food on the table. It's a vicious cycle.

We can see the link between poverty and hunger play out in larger statistics: The Democratic Republic of Congo is one of the world's poorest countries. In 2022, nearly 62% of the country's 60 million residents lived below the poverty line. Earlier this year, the UN estimated that 43% of all Congolese are also living below the hunger line in a crisis that is only expected to grow.

Across regions like the Sahel and the Horn of Africa, farming families experience periods before harvests known as hunger seasons. These are the times of year when food supplies from the previous harvest are exhausted, but the next harvest is still a ways off. This leaves families forced to skip one (or more) meals each day in the period before the next harvest, which could be months away.

We've also seen food shortages increase in the last few years as the results of COVID-19 and the crisis in Ukraine. Border closures intended to curb the pandemic and trade routes interrupted due to conflict have prevented critical supplies from getting where they're needed most. Read on to learn how the situation in Ukraine, for instance, has fed the hunger crisis in Somalia.

Conflict and hunger form another vicious cycle.

A history of conflict has played out in tandem with a history of hunger in South Sudan. More than a decade of civil war has led to mass displacement and abandoned fields, meaning crops and harvests have failed. Conflict also has an economic impact: It often leads to soaring inflation rates that make imported (or even local) foods unaffordable for many residents.

International conflicts also carry a large impact. Pre-war, Ukraine and Russia exported 25% of the world's wheat supplies. Somalia, Sudan, and South Sudan rely on this region - more than 8,000 km away - for staples. Those supply chains have been interrupted due to the conflict, and have left millions of people, including those affected by the ongoing drought in Horn of Africa, without a key lifeline.

Countries like Malawi enjoy relative peace and political stability. However, climate change is also a major cause of hunger, with each shock setting the most vulnerable people and communities further and further back.

Too little - or too much - rainfall can destroy harvests or reduce the amount of animal pasture available. These fluctuations are made worse by the El Niño weather system, and are likely to only get worse in the future. Extreme climate patterns also tend to affect the poorest regions of the world the most: The World Bank estimates that climate change has the power to push more than 100 million people into poverty over the next decade.

In order to thrive, humans need a range of foods providing a variety of essential health benefits. We mentioned above that families living in poverty often get food lower in nutrients. That's because many of these families rely on just one or two staple foods, like corn or wheat, for the majority of their meals. As a result, they don't get enough critical macronutrients and vitamins. Even if they feel full, they may still be suffering the effects of hunger, particularly malnutrition.

Nutrition is especially important for pregnant and breastfeeding women, as well as young children. Mums-to-be who don't get enough vitamins and minerals during their pregnancy may "pass on" malnutrition to their children. If a child does not have the adequate nutritional support during their first 1,000 days between conception and their second birthday, they may also suffer lifetime health and developmental ramifications.

Systemic problems, like poor infrastructure or low investment in agriculture, often prevent food and water from reaching the populations that need them the most. This is especially true in fragile contexts. Many of the world's hungriest countries also experience some form of political instability or conflict. Political leaders often focus limited resources on these emergencies rather than the silent ones like hunger.

This can become further exacerbated if another disaster hits, creating a complex humanitarian crisis. With decades of crisis in Somalia, the latest drought to affect the region is one example of a complex emergency, one that - even with the long spring rain season delivering water to the area - could still lead to a famine.

After two civil wars and the 2014-16 Ebola outbreak, Liberia 's economy was left weakened by back-to-back crises.

Seven years after the end of the Ebola epidemic, more than 50% of Liberians still live below the poverty line. It also ranks as the eighth hungriest country in the world, with a 2022 Global Hunger Index score of 32.4.

Inflation as the result of a bad economy means that, even if food is available and people have jobs, they may not be able to afford even the most basic staples. Last year, the cost of a food basket rose by 66% in Ethiopia, and 36% in Somalia.

According to the World Food Programme, over 1 billion tonnes of food produced is never consumed. That's equivalent to us throwing out one-third of the global food supply every year.

What's more, producing this wasted food also uses other natural resources that, when threatened, have a ripple effect in the countries that are already hit hardest by hunger, poverty, and climate change. Producing this wasted food requires an amount of water equal to the annual flow of Russia's Volga River, and nearly 3 billion tonnes of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere.

The UN notes that if female farmers had the same access to resources as their male counterparts, the number of hungry people in the world could be reduced by up to 150 million. Female farmers are responsible for growing, harvesting, preparing, and selling the majority of food in poor countries, and they're just one example of the many ways that hunger is a women's issue.

Women are on the frontlines of the fight against hunger, yet they are frequently underrepresented at the forums where important decisions on policy and resources are made.

Hunger can be a cause of forced migration. Forced migration can also be a cause of hunger. Refugees and internally-displaced people living in displacement camps or informal communities are often legally or linguistically prevented from getting work to support their families while away from home (many refugees are also women and children, which means their options are even more limited).

Many refugees live in neighbouring countries, countries with limited resources to begin with. Some of the hungriest countries in the world are also among the largest host communities or have high rates of internal displacement. Food aid helps, but the problem of hunger and migration can only be resolved with a political solution.

How Concern addresses the causes of world hunger

From Afghanistan to Ukraine, Concern's Health and Nutrition programmes are designed to address the specific, intersectional causes of world hunger in each unique context. We work with displaced communities to deliver food supplies, as well as to help migrants build skills (including home gardening) and find sources of income that empower them to keep food on the table.

Programmes like Lifesaving Education and Assistance to Farmers (LEAF) support farmers affected by climate change to improve their harvests using Climate Smart Agriculture techniques, while also addressing existing cases of malnutrition in the community via our standard-setting programme, Community Management of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM). Thanks to LEAF, food aid was not needed in one region of Kenya for the first time in 30 years.

You can help us in the fight against hunger. Last year alone, Concern was able to reach 8.3 million people with lifesaving and life-changing Health and Nutrition initiatives. With $0.93 out of every dollar going directly into our programmes, your tax-deductible donation to Concern means that we can reach even more next year.

The causes of world hunger in context

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People in hunger have physical and mental health problems because they don't eat a lot of nutritious food so this leads to weight loss, being more skinny and they lose a lot of calories. And that has a big impact on the human health and this causes a lot of diseases and health problems. Hunger weakens bones, muscles and skin. And may leads to death and disabilities for both adults and children

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Many factors contribute to hunger - which is why simply providing more food is not a long-term answer to hunger. To solve hunger, we need to understand the systems, environmental factors, and social factors that limit people's access to nutritious food.

Climate Change

Climate change is the greatest environmental challenge the world has ever faced, and it is damaging food and water security in significant ways, like drought and flooding. If countries cannot work together to find and implement solutions, ending hunger in our lifetime will be out of reach.

Changing weather patterns and natural disasters destroy crops, limit what crops can be grown in certain areas, and reduce access to grazing land for animals. Climate change is also shrinking water supplies.

Since 2010, about 21.5 million people have been displaced by climate-linked disasters each year; experts project that by 2050 the total number of displaced people could reach 1.2 billion.

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They will hunger no more, and thirst no more.

Revelation 7:16

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The period leading up to a harvest is known as the "hunger season."

Hunger Season

While there is enough food in the world, developing countries often experience shortages as a result of conflict, economic shocks, and natural disasters such as earthquakes, flooding, or drought. This can disrupt access to food, and the people most affected are smallholder farmers who depend on their own surplus to survive between harvests.

The period leading up to a harvest is known as the "hunger season." Food from the previous harvest runs out and families cut back on meals. This period of time may last for months, depending on the size of the previous harvest.

Bread sees the potential for a high payoff in providing smallholder farmers with resources and tools to improve the ways they grow food. Family farmers that are able to grow more food and more nutritious food have extra produce to sell to others, leading to income they can use to pay for better housing, medical care, and school fees.

In the U.S., families with very low incomes also experience food shortages. They run out of money at the end of the month and often have to skip meals until their next paycheck comes.

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Smallholder farmers can lose up to half of their harvest because they don't have adequate storage facilities to protect their supplies against pests and inclement weather.

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The period leading up to a harvest is known as the "hunger season."

Unstable Markets

People who live on $2.15 per day spend most of their income on food. In some countries, like Pakistan and Malawi, people in the lowest income group spend more than 75 percent of their incomes on food. Any fluctuation that pushes food prices up creates additional hardship - especially of basic grains such as wheat, rice, and corn, which make up the largest share of calories among people in developing countries who are hungry.

Job Instability

In the United States and other high-income countries, hunger is mainly caused by poverty that results from a lack of jobs or jobs that pay too little.

Hunger rates rise when the national or local economy is in a slump.

People who have been in prison face wide-scale discrimination that makes it difficult for them to find jobs once they reenter their community.

Single parents may not be able to take a job or work enough hours because of no childcare options.

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In most countries, evidence shows that hunger and poverty disproportionately impact women, communities of color, and rural communities.

Race and Gender Inequity

Economic growth alone does not ensure that prosperity is broadly shared. Every country, regardless of its wealth, has discrimination woven into its social fabric. Disadvantaged groups tend to be left the furthest behind. In most countries, evidence shows that hunger and poverty disproportionately impact women, communities of color, and rural communities.

Among all of these groups, women and girls are more disadvantaged than their male counterparts. Discrimination is why women farmers in developing countries labor with fewer productive resources than their male counterparts, why women in all sectors of the economy earn less than men, and why girls are pulled out of school to work or to marry.

Gender discrimination is often a cause of persistent hunger. Sixty percent of the world's hungry people are women and girls. Empowerment of women and girls is essential in ending hunger, extreme poverty, and malnutrition around the world and in the U.S. Research has shown that giving women greater control of their income and assets leads to widespread improvements in a country.

A cost-effective way of combating global malnutrition is to invest in improving the lives of women farmers. Women produce well over half the global food supply. Studies show that women are more likely to spend additional income on food when their economic circumstances improve.

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Many factors contribute to hunger. Discover the systems, environmental factors, and social factors that limit people's access to nutritious food.

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When people live in poor conditions it makes them not have money to buy essential resources such as food and this will make them not just living in poverty but in hunger too.

Natural Disasters=poverty=hunger

When a natural disaster occurs like a tornado it possibly ruins everything and this will make people lose their stuff or even their life so lets think that they lost their stuff so they will not have money to buy food and this will make them very poor in money and healthiness.

Discrimination=poverty

Lara told me that discrimination leads to poverty because people who get discriminated maybe cant get good learning which leads to bad job opportunities. So if someone doesn't

get good employment he will not get a proper salary. which maybe couldn't buy the essential resources of living a standard life which leads to poverty.

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A linegraph for people living in poverty.

90% of the people living in Sub Saharan Africa live in poverty.

75% of the people living in USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand live in poverty.

70% of the people living in Western Europe live in poverty

55% of the people living in the middle east live in poverty

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this the chart of people making only 2 dollars making them suffer because of the lack of food and water and proper housing.

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I used to think that hunger is only not eating but now i realized that they eat a bit but not healthy food so they have health problems.

I used to think that Urban Decay is a ruined place because of natural disasters but now I realized that its because of poverty.

I used to think that Malnutrition is only when you don't eat a lot of nutrients but now I realized that its when your body gets the nutrients that it doesn't need instead of the one it needs

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How is this trip related to your exhibition topic?

It is related to our topic(Poverty and Hunger) because we saw people living in graveyards because they don't have enough money to buy a proper house or even a proper shelter which make them live in a place that doesn't have markets to buy food, doesn't have hospitals or even clinics for medical attention so this will make them have health problems. All of this means they live in poverty.

What did you see?

I saw their houses and the houses were only 2 rooms and were somehow dirty and in the backyard, there was graves. I think there were 4 people buried in the backyard which was sad.

Were there any moments during the trip that made you emotional or reflective?

Yes, When I entered the houses of the people living in the graveyards. Imagine you live in a house that has in it 4 dead people. If i was like that I would think that the dead will become alive again and eat me.

What did you learn about people living there?

I learned that they live in a hard place but they keep trying to get better.

How is their daily life different from yours?

I go to school they dont

I have a television and a phone but they dont

I have alot of clothes but they dont

I have enough food to eat they don't

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1. How is this trip related to your exhibition topic?

The trip is related to my exhibition topic which is about poverty and hunger because we visited poor families living in a grave yard in a very bad condition, they don't have enough food, no clean water, no medicine, or hospitals to be treated in when they are sick and no schools to learn in.

They don't have a healthy life.

2-What did you see?

I saw houses broken down, not equipped well and they are living in very small and dirty houses.

3- Were there any moments during the trip that made you feel emotional or reflective? When ? Why?

I felt sad because they are living beside the grave yards and their houses are not clean and not eligible to live in.

4- What did you learn about the people living there?

I learned that they are living in a very bad condition but they are still trying to live and they deserve to have a better life.

5- How does their daily life differ from yours?

I have an equipped kitchen full of food and they don't eat all the daily meals.

I have a big and clean house and they don't even have a proper house to live in.

I go to school and they don't.

When I get sick I go to the doctor but they don't have money to go to the doctor or buy medicine.

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1: what did we see: we saw allot of poor people living in the graveyard because they cant afford homes they only have 2 or 3 rooms sleeping room, kitchen, and bathroom.

2: how does connect to your topic: in poverty their are poor people that don't have proper housing and clean water and food just like we saw.

3: was their any thing that made me feel emotional: yes when i saw the poor dog starving.

4: how is it different than your daily life: I have clean water food housing I'm safe and allot of other stuff like transportation.

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Poverty is the greatest cause of hunger all over the world. Most of the people who are hungry live in poverty. Hunger is a cause and effect of war and conflict, forced migration and gender inequality.

War and Conflict: the poorest people of society suffer a lot during wars, homes are destroyed and they are displaced. Poor infrastructure also causes hunger because the difficulty to transport food to a poor region of a country because of poor road conditions.

Forced Migration: can also cause hunger. Because they are living in displacement camps have no work to support their families.

Gender inequality: People who are white hates the black people so that leads to let the white not give food and water like white people. So that leads to hunger.

Natural Disasters: When a natural disaster comes the homes are been destroyed, water supplies, markets, hospitals and schools.

Food shortages: Food shortages are a great cause of hunger because it's when people live in poverty like adults they skip meals for the day and gives them to there children's so that causes hunger.

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What is malnutrition and how does cause it cause hunger?

How do people in poverty fight in wars?

What is Urban Decay and how does it cause poverty?

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1: what do people go through in poverty?

2:how much will people stay in poverty?

3: how long will people stay in hunger?

4: what type of hunger are people going through?

5: will hunger ever be solved?

6: how people in hunger and poverty treated?

7: how do people in poverty and hunger caught up in wars?

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1 hunger: I used to think that hunger is just hungry people, people that can't afford to eat. Now I realized its way more than just that its when they lack nutritious food having health problems and way more like sometimes children dying in birth because the mother barely eats and lacks nutritious food so the baby can also have a week immunity.

2 poverty: I used to think that poverty were just poor people now i know that poverty is when someone doesn't have a job, food, clean water and proper housing. ruined houses because of natural disasters and health problems and allot more.

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I used to think that poverty is when some doesn't have money.

But now I realized that poverty is not only when someone dose not have money only but other things else like: no home, no clean water, no nutritious food, no good looking clothes.

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Poverty = education are connected, because people living in poverty may not go to schools so they can work, which leaves them without education and learning skills. Also when they grow up there kids will the same as them and they will be in the same situation as them without any learning skills and education skills.

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Promoting access to education is integral to ChildFund's work to help children achieve their potential and break the cycle of poverty.

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The Physical, Mental, and Social Effects of Hunger (Chapter 4) - The Atrocity of Hunger

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Personal: there is a women that comes at my home to stay with us when my mom and my dad are at work she doesn't have the same life style like us. My mom gives her money to help her in her life.

Local: I saw people in my club giving out food to the workers.

Global: When Israel started attacking Palestine in October 2024, there was no food, no medical services, no water, no shelter and no money. We send donations to Palestine through the Egyptian Red Crescent to support them.

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Research and data to make progress against the world's largest problems

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Poverty is about not having enough money to meet basic needs including food, clothing and shelter. However, poverty is more, much more than just not having enough money.

The World Bank Organization describes poverty in this way:
"Poverty is hunger. Poverty is lack of shelter. Poverty is being sick and not being able to see a doctor. Poverty is not having access to school and not knowing how to read. Poverty is not having a job, is fear for the future, living one day at a time. Poverty has many faces, changing from place to place and across time, and has been described in many ways. Most often, poverty is a situation people want to escape. So poverty is a call to action -- for the poor and the wealthy alike -- a call to change the world so that many more may have enough to eat, adequate shelter, access to education and health, protection from violence, and a voice in what happens in their communities."
In addition to a lack of money, poverty is about not being able to participate in recreational activities; not being able to send children on a day trip with their schoolmates or to a birthday party; not being able to pay for medications for an illness. These are all costs of being poor. Those people who are barely able to pay for food and shelter simply can't consider these other expenses. When people are excluded within a society, when they are not well educated and when they have a higher incidence of illness, there are negative consequences for society. We all pay the price for poverty. The increased cost on the health system, the justice system and other systems that provide supports to those living in poverty has an impact on our economy.

While much progress has been made in measuring and analyzing poverty, the World Bank Organization is doing more work to identify indicators for the other dimensions of poverty. This work includes identifying social indicators to track education, health, access to services, vulnerability, and social exclusion.

There is no one cause of poverty, and the results of it are different in every case. Poverty varies considerably depending on the situation. Feeling poor in Canada is different from living in poverty in Russia or Zimbabwe. The differences between rich and poor within the borders of a country can also be great.

Despite the many definitions, one thing is certain; poverty is a complex societal issue. No matter how poverty is defined, it can be agreed that it is an issue that requires everyone's attention. It is important that all members of our society work together to provide the opportunities for all our members to reach their full potential. It helps all of us to help one another .

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What is poverty? - Economic and Social Inclusion Corporation - New Brunswick

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The World Bank Group's goals are to end extreme poverty and promote shared prosperity. This mission underpins our analytical, operational, and convening work in about 140 client countries.

For three decades, the number of people living in extreme poverty- defined as those who live on less than $2.15 per person per day at 2017 purchasing power parity-was declining. But the trend was interrupted in 2020, when poverty rose due to the disruption caused by the COVID-19 crisis. The number of people in extreme poverty rose by 70 million to more than 700 million people. The global extreme poverty rate reached 9.3 percent, up from 8.4 percent in 2019.

The world's poorest people bore the steepest costs of the pandemic. Their income losses were twice as high as the world's richest, and global inequality rose for the first time in decades. The poorest also faced large setbacks in health and education which, if left unaddressed by policy action, will have lasting consequences for their lifetime income prospects.

The recovery since then has been uneven. Rising food and energy prices-fueled in part by the war in Ukraine and by climate shocks and conflict-have hindered a swift recovery. By the end of 2022, as many as 685 million people could still be living in extreme poverty.

The recent setbacks took place when the speed of progress toward poverty reduction was already slowing, in tandem with subdued global economic growth.

The recent crises have pushed the world further off track from the global goal of ending extreme poverty by 2030. Given current trends, 574 million people-nearly 7 percent of the world's population-will still be living on less than $2.15 a day in 2030. And the challenge is made harder by the fact that extreme poverty is concentrated in parts of the world where it will be hardest to eradicate: in Sub-Saharan Africa, in conflict-affected areas, and in rural areas.

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The COVID-19 pandemic dealt the biggest setback to global poverty in decades. The economic recovery has been uneven, affected by rising food and energy prices-due to the war in Ukraine and climate change, among other factors-and high indebtedness in many countries. In addition, extreme poverty is now more concentrated in places where it will be hardest to eradicate, including in conflict-affected and rural areas.

Strategies to reach the least well-off must be tailored to each country's context, considering the latest data and analysis, and the needs of the population. How the world responds to these major challenges today will have a direct bearing on whether the current reversals in global poverty reduction can be turned around.

The World Bank provides recommendations for a complementary two-track approach: responding effectively to the urgent crisis in the short run, while continuing to focus on foundational development problems, including conflict and climate change.
Closing the gaps between policy aspiration and attainment
Too often, there is a wide gap between policies as articulated and their attainment in practice-between what citizens rightfully expect, and what they experience daily. Policy aspirations can be laudable, but there is likely to be considerable variation in the extent to which they can be realized, and in which groups benefit from them. For example, at the local level, those who have the least influence in a community might not be able to access basic services. It is critical to forge implementation strategies that can rapidly and flexibly respond to close the gaps.
Enhancing learning, improving data
From information gathered in household surveys to pixels captured by satellite images, data can inform policies and spur economic activity, serving as a powerful weapon in the fight against poverty. More data is available today than ever before, yet its value is largely untapped. Data is also a double-edged sword, requiring a social contract that builds trust by protecting people against misuse and harm, and works toward equal access and representation.
Investing in preparedness and prevention
The COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated that years of progress in reducing poverty can quickly disappear when a crisis strikes. Prevention measures often have low political payoff, with little credit given for disasters averted. Over time, populations with no lived experience of calamity can become complacent, presuming that such risks have been eliminated or can readily be addressed if they happen. COVID-19, together with climate change and enduring conflicts, is reminding us of the importance of investing in preparedness and prevention measures comprehensively and proactively.
Expanding cooperation and coordination
Contributing to and maintaining public goods require extensive cooperation and coordination. This is crucial for promoting widespread learning and improving the data-driven foundations of policymaking. It is also important for forming a sense of shared solidarity during crises and ensuring that the difficult policy choices by officials are both trusted and trustworthy.

Overall, with more than 60 percent of the world's extreme poor living in middle-income countries, we cannot focus solely on low-income countries if we want to end extreme poverty. We need to focus on the poorest people, regardless of where they live, and work with countries at all income levels to invest in their well-being and their future.

The goal to end extreme poverty works hand in hand with the World Bank Group's goal to promote shared prosperity, focused on increasing income growth among the bottom 40 percent in every country. Boosting shared prosperity broadly translates into improving the welfare of the least well-off in each country and includes a strong emphasis on tackling persistent inequalities that keep people in poverty from generation to generation.

Our work at the World Bank Group is based on strong country-led programs to improve living conditions-to drive growth, raise median incomes, create jobs, fully incorporate women and young people into economies, address environmental and climate challenges, and support stronger, more stable economies for everyone.

We continue to work closely with countries to help them find the best ways to improve the lives of their least advantaged citizens.

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The World Bank Group works to end poverty in several ways:

Funding projects that can have transformational impacts on communities.

Collecting and analyzing the critical data and evidence needed to target these programs to reach the poorest and most vulnerable.

Helping governments create more inclusive, effective policies that can benefit entire populations and lay the groundwork for prosperity for future generations.

Some examples:

Cambodia has achieved remarkable progress in reducing poverty and boosting shared prosperity, but key reforms are needed to sustain pro-poor growth. The World Bank is supporting Cambodia to help address the country's challenges of limited economic diversification, rapidly increasing urbanization, human capital deficiencies, and infrastructure gaps.

Mexico has experienced high income inequality and concentration of poverty in a few states. The World Bank Group has supported Mexico's efforts to develop a more inclusive, effective, and integrated social protection system including relaunching a conditional cash transfer program to help improve access to higher education and formal employment.

In one of India's poorest states, Bihar, a program financed by the World Bank has transformed livelihoods by mobilizing almost 10 million rural women into self-help groups and granting them access to finance and markets to start and expand their businesses.

A pilot program in Ecuador used text messages to relay information and encouragement to caregivers in an impoverished region of the country and saw a significant improvement in the nutrition and health of children.

Since 2007, a team of experts from the World Bank has been helping Kenya strengthen statistical capacity by reshaping its National Bureau of Statistics. With World Bank's support, the bureau implemented a range of surveys to update key indicators of official statistics and improved the data ecosystem. The project is funded by $50 million from the World Bank's International Development Association (IDA).

In-depth maps in countries such as Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Croatia, Republic of Serbia, and Vietnam show where economic diversity and gaps in services exist within a country. This, as part of the poverty assessment process, helps policymakers better target policies and programs to reach and benefit the poor.

Yemen's high malnutrition rates have drawn global attention, highlighting the impact the country's five-and-half-year civil war has had on its population. The Emergency Crisis Response Project gives pregnant women and women with children under the age of five money to buy food and teaches them about child nutrition. It has been able to reach more than 165,000 pregnant or lactating women and 175,000 children so far.

Conflict-affected communities in Mindanao are among the poorest in the Philippines, suffering from poor infrastructure and lack of basic services. The World Bank along with other partners have aimed to enhance access to services and economic opportunities and build social cohesion. These projects have help build water systems, community centers, sanitation facilities, access roads, post-harvest facilities, and farming and fishing equipment, benefiting 650,000 people in 284 villages in a decade.

An innovative series of rapid survey methodologies were pioneered in Somalia, one of the poorest countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. The surveys overcame significant security and implementation obstacles to yield the most comprehensive analysis of the welfare of the Somali people in decades and is now being used in other countries.

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Fighting poverty in all of its dimensions lies at the core of the World Bank's work. We work closely with governments to develop sound policies so that poor people can improve their livelihoods, and access social and infrastructure services and good jobs.

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How housing can mitigate or exacerbate the impact of poverty on people’s lives.

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What is the impact of poverty on people's mental health?

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What is the impact of poverty on people's mental health?

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Most of the people who live in poverty have mental health problems especially the people who their income level leaves them for public health insurance. Poverty causes stress, lack of financial resources and financial struggles. Poor mental health can cause depression. when people get depressed maybe they even dont get out of bed which maybe leads to losing a job. So this will this person drift to poverty.

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our responsibility to achieve SDG 2 zero hunger  

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our responsibility to achieve SDG 2 zero hunger  

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Support local farmers by supporting local farmers they can help the people in hunger, or markets to donate food especially clean organic nutritious food. something else we can do is contact WTF [WTF is an organization which specializes in solving poverty and hunger] so if we can contact them they can help achieve SDG goal 2

[ZERO HUNGER]

They also have a platform called dots which can measure the percentage which can help them by making the exact amount of resources so, they can give everyone resources and not waste money in the process. This can help millions. we can also contact other communities to help in zero hunger but this these communities will help people in hunger get jobs so they can get out of hunger and solve

BY 2030!

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Understand Goal 2: Zero Hunger (Secondary)

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Home SDG Tracker Goal 2: Zero hunger

Sustainable Development Goal 2

Prevalence of childhood stunting

Definition of the SDG indicator: Indicator 2.2.1 is the "prevalence of stunting among children under 5 years of age" in the UN SDG framework.²

This indicator is defined as the share of children under 5 years of age who are stunted, meaning that their height-for-age is 2 or more standard deviations below the median of the World Health Organization (WHO) Child Growth Standards. Stunting is a consequence of severe malnutrition.

Data for this indicator is shown in the interactive visualization.

The intermediate target is a reduction in the prevalence of stunting by 40% by 2025 (from 2012 levels).

Prevalence of childhood malnutrition (wasting or overweight)

Definition of the SDG indicator: Indicator 2.2.2 is the "prevalence of malnutrition among children under 5 years of age, by type (wasting and overweight)" in the UN SDG framework.⁴

"Wasting" or being overweight are both defined as being malnourished.

A child is defined as "wasted" if their weight-for-height is more than 2 standard deviations below the median of the WHO Child Growth Standards.

A child is defined as "overweight" if their weight-for-height is more than 2 standard deviations above the median of the WHO Child Growth Standards.

The interactive visualizations show data for this indicator. The first chart shows the share of children under 5 who are wasted, and the second chart shows the share who are overweight.

This targets an elimination of wasting, and the prevalence of children being overweight by 2030.

More research: Further data and research can be found at the Our World in Data topic pages on Hunger and Undernourishment, Obesity and Micronutrient Deficiency.

Production per labour unit

This indicator is measured as the ratio of annual output to the number of working days in a year.

Data for this indicator on small-scale food producers is shown in the interactive visualization. Small-scale food producers are those whose land size, livestock, and economic revenue from agricultural activities fall in the bottom 40 percent of the national distributions of these measures.

The second chart shows a related measure, the agricultural value added per worker.

Target: By 2030 "double the agricultural productivity and incomes of small-scale food producers, in particular women, indigenous peoples, family farmers, pastoralists and fishers, including through secure and equal access to land, other productive resources and inputs, knowledge, financial services, markets and opportunities for value addition and non-farm employment."

More research: Further data and research can be found at the Our World in Data topic page on Crop Yields and Employment in Agriculture.

Sustainable food production

Data for this indicator is currently not available, as per a Methodological Note from the Food and Agriculture Organization detailing how data is being collected.

More research: Further data and research can be found at the Our World in Data topic page on Crop Yields, and comparison of the environmental impact of organic vs. conventional agriculture.

Genetic resources in conservation facilities

The first component of this indicator is defined as the number of unique accessions (distinct samples of seeds, planting materials, or plants) of plant genetic resources stored in medium to long-term conservation facilities.

The second component is defined as the number of local (existing in only one country) and transboundary (existing in more than one country) animal breeds with enough genetic material stored in medium to long-term conservation facilities so as to be able to reconstitute the breed in terms of extinction.

The interactive visualizations show data for this indicator. The first chart shows the number of unique plant genetic samples in conservation facilities in each country. The second and third charts show the number of local and transboundary animal breeds for which sufficient genetic material is stored.

Unlike most SDG targets, which are set for 2030, this target was set for 2020.

Agriculture orientation index

The agriculture orientation index (AOI) is the agriculture share of government expenditures, divided by the agriculture share of GDP.

An AOI larger than 1 means the agriculture sector receives a higher share of government spending relative to its economic value, while an AOI smaller than 1 reflects a lower orientation to agriculture.

Data on this indicator is shown in the interactive visualization.

Official flows to agriculture

This indicator is measured as disbursements of official development assistance (ODA) and other official flows to the agriculture sector.

Official development assistance refers to flows to countries and territories on the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development's Development Assistance Committee (DAC) and to multilateral institutions which meet a set of criteria related to the source of the funding, the purpose of the transaction, and the concessional nature of the funding.

Data for this indicator is shown by recipient country in the interactive visualization.

Agricultural export subsidies

Data for this indicator is shown in the interactive visualization.

Target: By 2030 "correct and prevent trade restrictions and distortions in world agricultural markets, including through the parallel elimination of all forms of agricultural export subsidies and all export measures with equivalent effect, in accordance with the mandate of the Doha Development Round."

This target requires an elimination of agricultural export subsidies by 2030.

Food price anomalies

The indicator of food price anomalies (IFPA) identifies market prices that are unusually high, by evaluating growth in prices over a particular month for many years, while taking into account seasonality in agricultural markets and inflation.

Data on this indicator is shown in the first interactive visualization. A related measure, the share of countries recording high food prices, is provided in the second visualization for further context.

Target: By 2030 "adopt measures to ensure the proper functioning of food commodity markets and their derivatives and facilitate timely access to market information, including on food reserves, in order to help limit extreme food price volatility."

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End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture

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Sustainable Development Goals Tracker for SDG 2

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Newsela | Food crisis has Venezuela urging city residents to plant more gardens

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Food has gotten scarce - and very expensive - for people in Venezuela. The government is encouraging city residents to plant gardens and grow more of their own food.

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Newsela | The world wastes roughly a sixth of the food produced each year

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While many people in the world face daily hunger, huge amounts of food go wasted each year.

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"Rethink Zero" - the Zero Hunger Challenge

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Hunger can affect countries by making them not have quality food, clean water, quality education which leads to unemployment which leads to a weak economy which leads to a weak currency a weak currency leads to a bad country. HUNGER affects 52 countries that's why its such a big problem.

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What is the the impact of poverty on different countries? 

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What is the the impact of poverty on different countries? 

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The cycle of poverty means a life full of problems that are going to different countries. Unemployment is a problem to countries because that is gives bad income to the country and that lets the country to be poor so that is that leads to big impact on the country.

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Issues like hunger, illness, and poor sanitation are all causes and effects of poverty. That is to say, that not having food means being poor, but being poor also means being unable to afford food or clean water. The effects of poverty are often interrelated so that one problem rarely occurs alone. Bad sanitation makes one susceptible to diseases, and hunger and lack of clean water makes one even more vulnerable to diseases. Impoverished countries and communities often suffer from discrimination and end up caught in a cycle of poverty.

Effects of Poverty on Society

The vicious cycle of poverty means that lifelong barriers and troubles are passed on from one generation to the next. Unemployment and low incomes create an environment where children are unable to attend school. Children must often work to provide an income for their family. As for children who are able to go to school, many fail to see how hard work can improve their lives as they see their parents struggle at every day tasks. Other plagues accompanying poverty include:

Crippling accidents as a result of unsafe work environments-consider the recent building collapse in Bangladesh.

Poor housing-a long-lasting cause of diseases.

Water and food related diseases that occur simply because the poor cannot afford "safe" foods.

Ultimately, poverty is a major cause of social tensions and threatens to divide a nation because of income inequality. This occurs when the wealth of a country is poorly distributed among its citizens-when a tiny minority has a majority of the money. Wealthy or developed countries maintain stability because of the presence of a middle class. However, even Western countries are gradually losing their middle class. As a result there has been an increased number of riots and clashes. For society, poverty is a very dangerous factor that can destabilize an entire country. The Arab Spring is a great example of how revolts can start because of few job opportunities and high poverty levels.

Child Poverty

The number of children affected by poverty has been increasing since the 1960s. Children are those with the least amount choice and ability to change their circumstances. There is very little they can do to help their families, nor should they have to. Usually by the age of six they can be enrolled in child labor. Nearly all the potential effects of poverty impact the lives of children-poor infrastructure, unemployment, malnutrition, domestic violence, child labor, and disease. Simply analyzing the effects of child poverty on education in developed countries alone reveal some disturbing statistics:

Children from poor backgrounds lag behind at all stages of education.

By the age of three, poorer children are estimated to be nine months behind children from wealthier backgrounds.

By the end of primary school, students receiving free school meals are estimated to be about three terms behind their peers.

By 14, this gap increases to over five terms.

By 16, children receiving free school meals are about 1.7 grade points below their more affluent peers' average GPA.

Effects of Poverty and Violence

The effect of poverty on terrorism is not as straightforward as the media often perceives it to be. Poverty fuels terrorism by creating a state of misery and frustration that pushes people to join terrorist organizations. But more research shows, it is more complicated.

Of course, some terrorists come from poor countries with high unemployment, and terrorist organizations often provide higher salaries than other jobs. But terrorism may not be a direct effect of poverty. So what is the source of frustration and anger?

Studies show that countries with weak governments, fragile institutions, and limited civil rights are a great environment to nurture the production of terrorist activity. Countries undergoing difficult transitions-i.e. from authoritarian to democratic regime-often encounter political instability with the blurring of certain rules and laws.

These periods of profound change come with a transformation of social order, values, and methods of governing that many people may find distressing and unsettling. Therefore, stabilizing and empowering political institutions is a crucial part of fighting against the dangerous consequences of poverty.
- Scarlet Shelton

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Impact of Poverty on the Society | The Borgen Project

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Issues like hunger, illness, and poor sanitation are all causes and effects of poverty. That is to say, that not having food means being poor, but being poor also means being unable to afford food or clean water. The effects of poverty are often interrelated so that one problem rarely occurs alone.

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The impact of poverty on different societies 

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The lifelong cycle of poverty does big impacts to societies and it begins problems to societies and they are passed to a generation to author generations so this is a big impact to the different societies around the world. It can also cause high obesity heart diseases because of the lack of nutritious food and other nutritious problems. they can also get tricked in the trap which is cycle which combines poverty and hunger making it hard to get out of it even when society economic is getting better and their stuck in their place just like falling in a never ending black hole.

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the most place that has poverty is Ethiopia and Bangladesh which people are making less than or making 2.15$. in the middle is turkey which people are making 7.63$ or less. the least country in poverty is Vietnam and united states making between 4.02$ to 24.55$ or less.

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First I didn't know the meaning of poverty and hunger I thought that poverty and hunger is a normal thing but now I understood how challenging their life is. And now people living in hunger don't eat a lot of nutritious food and they eat food from the ground the food may be poisoned and they will die from the poison and they drink water from the Nile and that maybe polluted. People in poverty don't have the essentials for a normal living so that leads for them to die from no shelter, money, clothes, water, and food.

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Which country has the most people living in poverty?

Which country has the more people living in hunger?

what is the percentage of people living poverty?

What is the percentage of people living in hunger?

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Personal: In Ramadan I packed food and water for the poor to help them eat food that is healthier than the ones they eat.

Local: I saw pictures of people working in the government did مائدة رحمان for poor people.

Global: The United Nations made goals that we need to achieve by 2030 (the first one is no poverty and the second one is zero hunger).

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Ending Poverty:

We can do UCT (Unconditional Cash Transfers) but to do this we need to raise enough funds.

Also for making it easier for people you can talk to a charity so whenever you want to donate. Just donate to the charity.

Organizations that fight hunger:

Action Against Hunger: This organization is trying to end hunger for almost 40 years and it will never stop until hunger issue had ended. This organization is saving children's lives by prevention and treatment mostly after the disasters.

Meals on wheels:

Meals on Wheels delivers meals to individuals at home who are unable to purchase or prepare their own meals.MOW is active in all 50 states and the U.S. territories. Your charitable donations are best used by giving to a local MOW organization

National Bank of Egypt:

to enhance the development of an orphaned child by providing nutritious to directly improve a child’s mental & physical abilities. The program serves thousands of orphans including cancer patients and children with special needs.

the Egyptian Food Bank started to serve orphanages in Egypt with food through a dedicated initiative that falls under the protection platform. This initiative provides food boxes to fulfill the needs of children in orphanages around the Republic.

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1- I thought that poverty is the people who are poor but can buy food water but now I know that poverty is the poor people who can't afford the essential resources like food, water and shelter.

2- I thought that hunger is when people are hungry normally but I found out that hunger is that when people skip meals because of the poor conditions they live in so this leads to severe hunger and medical issues.

3- I thought that poverty line is a level of extreme poverty

but I found out that its an amount that is different from one country to the other. For example, 1045$ and if someone has less than this amount of money he is considered poor.

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Ending Poverty: I will make meals that included( Eggs, Bread, Halawa, Cheese and Juice for sohoor and iftar for the people in need.

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70% from the Chinese government suffered from the great chinese famine but china fighted this issue and used its people to create lots and lots of jobs for everyone. China made a nutritious lunch project for preschool age children to be sure that they eat healthy food to help them learn well and a high percentage of these food come from local smallholder farmers. This process helps the children eat and learn well and the farmers will get incomes to help their families plus improving the agriculture in china. This country lifted out 800 million chinese from poverty and hunger from 1978-2020. One of the most important things in China is agriculture science and trying to plant most of its lands. We need to learn how these people did this crucial progress.

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