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“If we can conquer space, we can conquer childhood hunger.” –Buzz Aldrin

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“If we can conquer space, we can conquer childhood hunger.” –Buzz Aldrin

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For most, hunger is a nagging rumble in one’s stomach that signals lunch or dinnertime. However, for millions of people worldwide, the definition of hunger is a persistent state of physical and psychological harm caused by a lack of nutritional and economic resources.

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We get the food easily, so we waste it without realizing for a minute. Let's make it a habit of giving the left overs to the hunger every night before we fall asleep.

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On a global scale, the simplest definition of hunger is a scarcity of food in a country. This occurs when the population of a country quite literally does not have enough to eat. In most developed countries, only a relatively small percentage of citizens suffer from hunger. However, in poorer developing countries this portion of the population can be as high as 73 percent. In fact, almost 98 percent of world hunger happens in underdeveloped countries.

On an individual scale, hunger occurs when a person consumes an insufficient amount of calories to sustain them, called malnourishment. When a person has an insufficient amount of the right kinds of foods to keep them healthy it is malnutrition. In most countries where hunger is a significant social and economic problem, both malnourishment and malnutrition are common. Poverty is the number one cause of hunger since it results in a lack of ability to buy food and pay for the expansion of agricultural programs.

Another definition of hunger involves the mental uncertainty of future access to food; in other words, not knowing where the next meal is coming from. The technical term for this phenomenon is food insecurity. Many organizations working to end hunger, such as Bread.org, seek to achieve the goal of global food security. The World Food Summit defined this as when “all people at all times have access to sufficient safe and nutritious food for an active and healthy life.”
The costs of hunger are far-reaching and have long-term negative impacts on populations. Those who suffer from hunger are more susceptible to illnesses. Children who face malnutrition during their first two years of life experience lifelong consequences. If nutritional needs are not met during this key window of roughly 1,000 days between conception and age two, stunted growth and learning impairments develop

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4.8M Filipino families went hungry in last 3 months; 674K endured severe hunger 

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4.8M Filipino families went hungry in last 3 months; 674K endured severe hunger 

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MANILA, Philippines — Results from a survey conducted by the Social Weather Stations (SWS) revealed that 16.8 percent of Filipino families nationwide, or 4.8 million Filipino families experienced hunger due to lack of food at least once in the previous three months.

Of the 16.8 percent, SWS said 14.1 percent (3.6 million families) experienced Moderate Hunger while 2.7 percent (674,000 families) experienced Severe Hunger.

Moderate Hunger refers to those who experienced hunger “Only Once” or “A Few Times” in the last three months. Severe Hunger refers to those who experienced it “Often” or “Always” in the last three months.

According to SWS, the current rate is 0.8 points above the 16.0 percent or estimated four million families in November 2020, while it is 4.3 points below the 2020 annual average of 21.1 percent.

This, however, is double the December 2019 pre-pandemic level of 8.8 percent or around 2.1 million families, said SWS.

The SWS survey also revealed that per area, Mindanao currently has the highest hunger rate at  20.7 percent (1.2 million families) in Mindanao.

It is followed by Visayas at 16.3 (776,000 families), Luzon at 15.7 percent (1.8 million families), and Metro Manila at 14.7 percent (496,000 families).

Meanwhile in November 2020, hunger was at 23.3 percent (780,000 families) in Metro Manila, 16 percent (909,000 families) in Mindanao, 14.4 percent (1.6 million families) in Luzon, and 14.3 percent  ( 674,000 families) in the Visayas, said SWS.

The First Quarter 2021 survey was conducted from April 28 to May 2, 2021, using face-to-face interviews of 1,200 adults (18 years old and above) nationwide, said the SWS.

Three hundred families each in Metro Manila, Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao were interviewed.

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HUNGER DURING COVID-19 PANDEMIC SITUATION DOCUMENTARY

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HUNGER DURING COVID-19 PANDEMIC SITUATION DOCUMENTARY

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COVID-19 In Philippines: The Starving Urban Poor. What Went Wrong? | Insight | Poverty In Asia

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After decades of steady decline, the number of people who suffer from hunger – as measured by the prevalence of undernourishment – began to slowly increase again in 2015. Current estimates show that nearly 690 million people are hungry, or 8.9 percent of the world population – up by 10 million people in one year and by nearly 60 million in five years.

The world is not on track to achieve Zero Hunger by 2030. If recent trends continue, the number of people affected by hunger would surpass 840 million by 2030.

According to the World Food Programme, 135 million suffer from acute hunger largely due to man-made conflicts, climate change and economic downturns. The COVID-19 pandemic could now double that number, putting an additional 130 million people at risk of suffering acute hunger by the end of 2020.

With more than a quarter of a billion people potentially at the brink of starvation, swift action needs to be taken to provide food and humanitarian relief to the most at-risk regions.

At the same time, a profound change of the global food and agriculture system is needed if we are to nourish the more than 690 million people who are hungry today – and the additional 2 billion people the world will have by 2050. Increasing agricultural productivity and sustainable food production are crucial to help alleviate the perils of hunger.

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1. 11.3% of the world’s population is hungry. That’s roughly 805 million people who go undernourished on a daily basis, consuming less than the recommended 2,100 calories a day.[1]

2. The world produces enough food to feed all 7 billion people, but those who go hungry either do not have land to grow food or money to purchase it. Fight hunger in your community by collecting food outside a local supermarket. Sign up for Supermarket Stakeout.[2]

3. 10 countries that have achieved greatest success in reducing the total number of hungry people in proportion to their national population are Armenia, Azerbaijan, Brazil, Cuba, Georgia, Ghana, Kuwait, Saint Vincent and Grenadines, Thailand and Venezuela.[3]

4. Poverty is the principal cause of hunger. The causes of poverty include poor people's lack of resources, an extremely unequal income distribution in the world and within specific countries, conflict, and hunger itself.[4]

5. In 2010, an estimated 7.6 million children — more than 20,000 a day — died. Poor nutrition plays a role in at least half of these deaths.[5]

6. Nearly 98% of worldwide hunger exists in underdeveloped countries.[6]

7. Almost 1 in every 15 children in developing countries dies before the age of 5, most of them from hunger-related causes.[7]

8. While hunger exists worldwide, 526 million hungry people live in Asia.[8]

9. Over a quarter of the world's undernourished people live in Sub-Saharan Africa. Almost 1 in 4 people in this region is chronically hungry.[9]

10. When a mother is undernourished during pregnancy, the baby is often born undernourished, too. Every year, 17 million children are born this way due to a mother’s lack of nutrition before and during pregnancy.[10]

11. Similarly, women in hunger are so deficient of basic nutrients (like iron) that 315,000 die during childbirth from hemorrhaging every year.