Today Friday, October 16, 2009 is World Day of Food . This was proclaimed in 1979 by the Conference of the Organization of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in order to raise awareness all over the world food problem and strengthen solidarity in the fight against hunger, malnutrition and poverty .
The theme for this year is to achieve food security at this time of crisis we are experiencing. The crisis not only suffer in the West, is international, so inconsiderate affects many vulnerable people as those living in developing areas. Especially
affected children are growing, pregnant, nursing mothers, elderly and infirm. The vast majority of the world's undernourished population lives in these countries: in Asia and the Pacific are concentrated around 642 million hungry people in sub-Saharan Africa 265 million in Latin America and the Caribbean 53 million in Africa Middle East & North 42 million.
The problem is compounded when revenues decline due to lack of financial support to development (FAO estimates that it takes about 30,000 million dollars a year to end the food crisis) and reduce the rate of remittances of migrants to their families for lack of employment in the countries where they reside.
Currently, therefore, the lack of jobs and income with which to buy enough food to unseat the main cause of malnutrition so far: poor harvests.
data provided by the FAO in its annual report on food security are really creepy, the number of people chronically hungry people this year will reach a figure ever. In 2009 there has been an increase of 105 million hungry people in the world today is estimated at 1.02 billion cases of malnutrition (almost one sixth of humanity has no food to put in their mouth.)
Although lack of food is common in developing countries, the crisis has reached many families in developed countries, currently affecting 15 million people. Both in Spain and other European countries, the crisis has led to the disappearance of jobs, increased prices of staple food and difficulties paying the mortgage. Thus, for the first time in many years, charities have been increased requests for food aid, among other things, and dining rooms are packed as ever.
On a day like today we should think seriously about these data that reflected a lack of food harms the human being with the adverse effects of malnutrition, severe diarrhea, reduced lung capacity, respiratory failure, ultimately, reduced heart size, decreased heart rate, hypotension and heart failure eventually, hypothermia, and edema, anemia groups, nervous system damage, etc.. In the most small, the effects are usually irreversible, for which a recovery can never be experienced in adulthood, although they may be food in their mouths.
is time to move and find an immediate solution before more people have to be affected by this situation. Fighting hunger in the world means fighting for peace, global security and development. MARTA GONZÁLEZ CABALLERO
The theme for this year is to achieve food security at this time of crisis we are experiencing. The crisis not only suffer in the West, is international, so inconsiderate affects many vulnerable people as those living in developing areas. Especially
affected children are growing, pregnant, nursing mothers, elderly and infirm. The vast majority of the world's undernourished population lives in these countries: in Asia and the Pacific are concentrated around 642 million hungry people in sub-Saharan Africa 265 million in Latin America and the Caribbean 53 million in Africa Middle East & North 42 million.
The problem is compounded when revenues decline due to lack of financial support to development (FAO estimates that it takes about 30,000 million dollars a year to end the food crisis) and reduce the rate of remittances of migrants to their families for lack of employment in the countries where they reside. Currently, therefore, the lack of jobs and income with which to buy enough food to unseat the main cause of malnutrition so far: poor harvests.
data provided by the FAO in its annual report on food security are really creepy, the number of people chronically hungry people this year will reach a figure ever. In 2009 there has been an increase of 105 million hungry people in the world today is estimated at 1.02 billion cases of malnutrition (almost one sixth of humanity has no food to put in their mouth.)
Although lack of food is common in developing countries, the crisis has reached many families in developed countries, currently affecting 15 million people. Both in Spain and other European countries, the crisis has led to the disappearance of jobs, increased prices of staple food and difficulties paying the mortgage. Thus, for the first time in many years, charities have been increased requests for food aid, among other things, and dining rooms are packed as ever.
On a day like today we should think seriously about these data that reflected a lack of food harms the human being with the adverse effects of malnutrition, severe diarrhea, reduced lung capacity, respiratory failure, ultimately, reduced heart size, decreased heart rate, hypotension and heart failure eventually, hypothermia, and edema, anemia groups, nervous system damage, etc.. In the most small, the effects are usually irreversible, for which a recovery can never be experienced in adulthood, although they may be food in their mouths. is time to move and find an immediate solution before more people have to be affected by this situation. Fighting hunger in the world means fighting for peace, global security and development. MARTA GONZÁLEZ CABALLERO
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