|
decrease in wold hunger; why?
hey this paragraph "About 24,000 people die every day from hunger or hunger-related causes. This is down from 35,000 ten years ago, and 41,000 twenty years ago. Three-fourths of the deaths are children under the age of five. " obviously tells us that there has been a decrease in world-hunger, which is great, but i've been thinking.. and i mean, we've had MORE wars, right? shouldn't there have been an increase over the years?
do you know what has led to this decrease?
howcome less people are STARVING?
thanks!
[ ]
Want to answer more questions in the Miscellaneous category?
Maybe give some free advice about: Random Weirdos?
I am rather curious about where you are getting that paragraph from. Just how much poverty is increasing or decreasing is a contentious fact right now. Some organizations who fight poverty, like the World Bank, claim they are being very successful, especially in India and China (those countries are home to nearly a third of the world's poor.) But the data on world poverty is fuzzy, difficult to gather, and has a huge margin of error, so there is a lot of doubt whether it is actually rising or falling and by how much.
Even if world poverty is falling (which most people will agree it is, they just argue about how much) it's important to know that just because less people are starving to death doesn't mean they aren't still living very difficult lives far below the poverty line and suffering from many illness and horrible living conditions. People are still dying, loads of them, just not so much from hunger.
As for your 'MORE wars' theory, you are actually quite wrong. The United States has gotten itself embroiled in several wars lately, but the number of wars around the world has decrease almost 50% since 1990. It is in fact, a more peaceful world then it was 20 years ago, no thanks to Bush.
The greatest decrease in poverty however, has undoubtedly happened in India. With world support the government of India has made effort themselves to end poverty in their country. That is really probably the main reason deaths from starvation are decreasing: With help from richer countries through debt forgiveness, not-for-profit agencies and the sort, countries with serious poverty problems are organizing from within and working desperately hard to end the suffering of their own people.
]
i think its because he increase in knowledge and technology. in the feild of genetics there designing plants that can live in harsh climates.and there planting them in africa etc...
hope i helped:)
]
More Questions: |