This document discusses hunger and strategies to achieve zero hunger by 2030. It defines hunger and provides statistics on the number of hungry people worldwide. The main causes of hunger are identified as poverty, natural disasters, political instability, and food shortages. The UN's Zero Hunger Challenge aims to end hunger by making food systems sustainable, ending rural poverty and malnutrition, eliminating food waste, and ensuring access to nutritious foods for all. Some strategies proposed to achieve this include creating jobs, investing in agriculture, educating women, promoting gender equality, using modern farming techniques, providing food assistance, supporting small farmers, developing drought-resistant crops, practicing sustainable agriculture, and providing agricultural subsidies. Coordinated efforts by governments, citizens,

2. Presented by,
Mrs.J.Jeba M.Sc.,M.Phil.,
Assistant Professor,
Annasamy Rajammal College of Nursing,
Athiyoothu.

3. HUNGER
Definition-A short term
physical discomfort as a
result of chronic food
shortage.

4. FACTS
• In the world we produce enough
food to feed everyone.
• India is the second largest food
producer in the world.
• But everyday too many men and
women across the globe struggle to
feed their childrens a nutritious
meal.

5. CAUSES
Poverty
Natural disasters-
Earthquake, Flood,Drought.
Political&economical
instability
Diminishing natural
resources
Food shortages and
wastages
 War
Job instability

6. STATISTICAL
ANALYSIS
 World population -7.7 billion
795 million people(one in nine) do
not have enough food to lead a
healthy life.
Vast majority of hungry people
live in developing countries.(Asia
continent)
 One child dies every 10 seconds
from hungry
 Each year 3.1 million children
(Under 5) died due to poor
nutrition.

7. STATISTICAL ANALYSIS
12.9% population is undernourished.
1 in four is undernourished.
66 million school age children attend the
classes with hungry.
World food programme(WAP) calculates
3200 crores money to be needed per year to
reach a 66 million hungry school age
children.
 One out of 6 children(100million) in
developing countries is underweight.

8. ZERO HUNGER
A World food
programme that
prevents food wastage
and create a world
where there is no
hunger.
WAP-World’s largest
humanitarian agency
to fight against hunger.

9. ZERO HUNGER CHALLENGE
• Launched by UN Secretary-
General Mr.Bankimoon in June 2012
• He Announced a Global challenge: Create
the world where no one is hungry by 2030
• Mr.Bankimoon called this initiative as the
ZERO HUNGER CHALLENGE

10. AIM
It aims to End hunger
and ensure access by all
people in vulnerable
conditions including
infants to safe
nutritious &sufficient
food all year around.

11. THE CHALLENGES
• 1.Make all food systems are sustainable:
From production to consumption.
• 2.End rural poverty: Double small scalar
producers income &production.
• 3.Eliminate waste of food.
• 4.Access adequate food and healthy diets for
people.
• 5.End malnutrition.

13. 1.END POVERTY
Create jobs-When people have jobs
they have income.
Invest& implement agricultural
programmes
Educating woman programmes
Gender equality-Gender equality
raises household income.

15. 2.END MALNUTRITION
Proper education to people regarding
importance of food
Use modern agricultural techniques to
increase agricultural production
Government projects to provide healthy
food to infants and pregnant woman
Global public health and disease control
measures

16. 3.FOOD DONATION
Simplest way to fight hunger
Nowadays many mobile apps are
available to donate food.
E.g. –No food waste
 Feeding India
 Olio

17. 4.SUPPORT SMALL FARMERS
Governments &NGOs
support and train small
farmers is the best solution to
future food security
Buy organic foods
Buy local farmers
Volunteer at a small farm

18. 5.ROLLOUT BIOTECHNOLOGY
Produce climate
resilient crops for
higher yields and to
withstand climate
change
Gene splicing
crops-Help the plant
to withstand
drought &flood

19. 6.SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE
Produce sufficient food to
meet the needs without
destroying ecological assets
Focus on producing long
term crops helping farmers
to improve their techniques
and quality of life

20. 7.AGRICULTURAL SUBSIDIES
Financial assistance
provided by the
Government
To ensure food
production and
encouragement

22. Don't waste food.
Those who are financially stable
should try &help to needy people
Those who are healthy should
try& volunteer to help them

23. If we want to see a world free of hunger by
2030,government, citizens, civil society
organization& private sectors must
coordinate to invest, innovate & create
permanent solutions