world hunger

WORLD HUNGER The U.N. Food and Agricultural Organization has estimated that as many as 550 million people around the world suffer from chronic hunger. That means that as many as one of ten of the world’s population do not get enough food to eat. This figure does not even include the hundreds of millions of people who suffer blindness, goiter, anemia and other diseases due to poor diet. This year alone more than 17 million …

…with more indebted countries unable to buy food they need on the commercial market, it is expected that even greater amounts of food aid will be required. Many experts feel that this aid is only a temporary solution to the problem of food shortages. They say that the U.N. should stabilize the governments and stop the civil wars if they want to resolve the problem of food shortages in the long run. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**