2. • Hunger has affected over 925 million
people globally
• Most of the people affected live in Third
World Countries
• Many of the poor suffer from Malnutrition
and die of Starvation
3. Education Of Hunger
• The World Hunger Education Service
works to educate on the subject matter
of world malnutrition, and this group has
helped people learn about our world
hunger problems. There are also several
smaller organizations that work to
educate people on poverty in their homes
and neighbourhoods around the globe.
4. Global initiatives to end hunger
• The main global policy to reduce hunger and
poverty are the recently approved Sustainable
Development Goals. In particular Goal 2: Zero
Hunger sets globally agreed targets to end
hunger, achieve food security and improved
nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture.
5. Fight against hunger
• The philosopher Simone Weil wrote that feeding the
hungry when you have resources to do so is the most
obvious of all human obligations. She says that as far back
as Ancient Egypt, many believed that people had to show
they had helped the hungry in order to justify themselves
in the afterlife. Weil writes that Social progress is
commonly held to be first of all, "...a transition to a state of
human society in which people will not suffer from
hunger." Social historian Karl Polanyi wrote that before
markets became the world's dominant form of economic
organization in the 19th century, most human societies
would either starve all together or not at all, because
communities would invariably share their food.
