Visit the following websites to learn about hunger and Poverty
http://www.poverty.com/
http://www.globalissues.org/issue/6/world-hunger-and-poverty
Please post 2 unique facts that you have discovered about hunger and poverty. Also post a comment relating to two of your peers postings. You should have 2 postings by the end of the week.
Despite the fact that there is plenty of food for every person in the world, more than half of the world starves every day due to a lack of money to afford this food. There are programs, like "Work for Food" for adults, where adults will work building their infrastructure in exchange for food, and "Education for Food" where children are given both food and an education to better support their society in the future. -Chris Lansing
ReplyDeleteI agree with chris. There is enough food for everyone but the ones who need it most, don't have the money.
ReplyDeleteThere are many inter-related issues causing hunger, which are related to economics and other factors that cause poverty. They include land ownership and inefficient agricultural practices. People are hungry not because the population is growing so fast that food is becoming scarce, but because people cannot afford it.
ReplyDeletei agree with chris also, there is enough food for everyone but the ones who need it most dont have the money, or the area in which they live does not have food around
ReplyDeleteItis sad what is happening inside our country and outside it. I dont get why theres plenty of food yet some people die of stravation.We need to stop seeing the world as a reasorces.
ReplyDeleteIt makes no sence why the goverment cant end world hunger if we have food in the united states why cant you give them some of our food and if we dont end this now its going to keep spreading and its going to be a epicdemic
ReplyDeleteI agree with alexis. It is very said & if we all have enough food while are people starving?
ReplyDeleteEconomic Stuggles lead to starvation. Starvation leads to deaths. We should all try to make a change in the world.
hey its siera. i'm going to tell you 2 facts about hunger and poverty. 1.) hunger and poverty. 2.)Familey's don't have alot of money to buy food so they go hungry. There is programs that can help stop this. i agree with chris. there is alot of food. but not everyone can get it.
ReplyDeleteI found out that this is a big problem through out asia and africa millions of people are dieing because of world hunger.
ReplyDeletePoverty causes hunger, so when trying to end hunger you have to end poverty first. People are dying because they can't afford food not because food is scarce. In the future, if we keep using all of our resourses, it could be the opposite and no one would have food.
ReplyDeleteI also agree with chris. I think we have enough food but the people who need it the most dont have it, because, they might not have money or they cant grow any.
ReplyDeleteI also agree that its stupied that poeple strave because they dont have money or they just cant grow food.
ReplyDeleteTwo unique facts I learned from the sites are that; (1) About 25,000 people die every day of hunger or hunger-related causes (2) To solve world hunger in the long run, poverty alleviation is required. The first fact is shocking to me, to think that 25,000 people, who are mostly children, die everyday from malnutrition. I think that the second fact makes a valid point, because poverty is a leading cause in hunger, because wihtout the money to buy food, you starve.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Alexis, that it doesnt make sense how we can have so much food to eat; even overeat; yet 15 percent of the world is starving. I also agree with "XoalyiahoX" that it makes no sense that the govwernment cannot find a way to solve this problem when the world creates enough food to provide for everyone yet it seems to be unequally delt out. It seems so unfair.
ReplyDeleteTwo facts I have learned from these websites is, 1)One person every three and a half seconds die of hunger and it is mostly children. 2)Almost half the world, over 3 billion people, live on less than $2.50 a day.
ReplyDeleteSo two facts about hunger and poverty that i found was that 1)about 25,000 people die everyday of hunger-related causes. Also 2)every 5 seconds a child or an adult dies oh hunger and poverty.
ReplyDeletei agree with Chris because maybe some adults should go on these programs to help these children and the adults.
ReplyDeletei learned the same thing as hoppie girl - 25,000 people die a day from hunger or hunger related causes. i also learned that 70% of the worlds women are poor. I agree with Alyssa poverty=hunger
ReplyDeleteto end world hunger it would cost 195billion dollars a year and 1 out of every two cheildren live in poverty
ReplyDeleteafter visting these websites i learned poevrty is increasing graduatly each year also i learned that more children are diein from poverty nd hunger trhen anyone else
ReplyDeletewow, going to this site has opened my mind a lot more than just talking about it. the map on the home page shows how there is about 25000 deaths a day from poverty. looking into it more i see that poverty can lead to Hunger, AIDS, Pneumonia, Diarrhea, Tuberculosis, Malaria, and Measles. which makes me think.... why arent we helping?
ReplyDeleteWhen I looked at these websites I realized, at least 80% of humanity lives on less than $10 a day. I also learned that due to poverty, Nearly a billion people entered the 21st century unable to read a book or sign their names.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Mike, I wish we could do more to help out. I also agree with Caitlan Toste. It's sad that we do have enough food in the world to feed everyone, but people in poverty can't afford it. All that extra food goes to waste, or other people over eat.
ReplyDeleteMany people die every year due to poverty even every minute. People even in the us live in poverty when our country is one of the wealthest countries. I agree with renee i wish that i could do more to help poeple in poverty.
ReplyDeleteI'd like to comment on both Caitlan Toste and Alexis' post. It's a true fact that the United States has more food than most places in the world, and it is a commonly known fact that, if the rest of the world began to starve, we'd be the last to go. Reason being, however, is because we, unlike some nations, have the economic power to afford the food that these nations produce. It is not a BAD thing that we have food while others do not, it is simply a matter of our success in the world. But this does not mean that we cannot offer our aid to less fortunate nations--and we do. More than any other country, the United States contributes food, money, and other examples of aid to these impoverished nations.
ReplyDeletetwo thing ive learned, are malnutrition is implicated in more than half of all child deaths, and 80% of humanity lives on less tha $10 a day
ReplyDeleteOver 9 million people die in the world each year because of hunger and malnutrition. 5 million of the people are children
ReplyDelete1.2 billion people suffer from hunger in the world
I agree with Alyssa that poverty causes hunger
ReplyDeletei agree with mike i wish we could do something to help these people out, they just live so far away
ReplyDeletePovery is a major issue in today's world that needs to be adressed, Every 3.6 seconds someone dies of hunger, which is not acceptable
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ReplyDeleteI also agree with Chris, if we have the extra food, it should be given to the people that actually need it, to the people that are starving.
ReplyDeletePoverty kills more than 50,000 people every day. Another unique fact is the wealthiest fifth of the world’s people consumes 86 percent of all goods and services, while the poorest fifth consumes 1 percent.
ReplyDeletei agree with alyssa's comment when she says that poverty causes hunger and when we are trying to stop hunger that we should be fixing the poverty first.
ReplyDeleteMillions of people die every year because of world hunger. It is unbelievable because there is plenty of food in the world for everybody. Yet many people waste it, while others are dieing of starvation.
ReplyDeleteI also agree with Chris, we have enough food and instead of wasting it we should give it away.
ReplyDelete1)923 million people across the world are hungry.
ReplyDelete2)Every day, almost 16,000 children die from hunger-related causes--one child every five seconds.
as i was researching hunger and poverty i read alot of information about how many people in this world is living in a very desprate stuggle to survive and keep their families going
ReplyDeleteI learned that every day, almost 16,000 children die from hunger-related causes. That's one child every five seconds. Hunger and poverty needs to be stopped, and there has to be a way to help out.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Cloeman, It does need to stop. Who can anyone allow children to die.
ReplyDeletei learned over half the people on earth suffer from poverty and 250000 people dide a day from hunger
ReplyDeleteI learned that world hunger is a terrible symptom of world poverty.Also about 25,000 people die every day of hunger or hunger-related causes. People need to realize the imense amount of people who die each year because of hunger.
ReplyDeletei agree with mike, we really need to be contributing to this more than we already are.
ReplyDeleteI learned that in America 40-50% of food ready to be harvested never gets eaten. I also learned that the medical cost of malnutrition is $30 billion
ReplyDeleteI agree with mike about wondering why we aren't helping these people. I agree with toste about solving poverty as a way to solve hunger
ReplyDeleteI agree with Whitney, economic problems do lead to starvation which means that poverty and hunger go hand in hand, to fix one the other will need to be fixed too. Commenting on mikes post too all these things do lead to sicknesses like AIDs and maleria and people do need to open their eyes.
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ReplyDeletefor some reason this didnt work?? but it may be quite silly, but the most surprising thing i learned was that about 22,000 people die everyday for something related to or because of hunger. That really might be the most obvious thing learned from that site, but it is also the most impacting piece of information to me. The other thing i learned is that there are many thigns that lead to poverty, you don't just have to be born poor, and so on. The ways that you can become poor were so surprising because they were such normal things that it made me realize it's not an "highly unlikely" thing to happen, and in fact it could happen very easily, which is probably the reason for so much poverty in the world.
ReplyDeleteI learned that a person dies from poverty and hunger, every 3 seconds. I also learned that 2.8 billion people live on less than 2 dollars a day.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Greg, that we Americans grow too much food, and we should ship it places like India and Africa.
ReplyDeletenick. i learned that america grows plenty of food but less than half gets harvested. every day 25,000 people die from hunger or related causes. i agree with sam that poverty needs to be adressed soon and that it can no longer be ignored
ReplyDeletei learned how any people are in poverty and that are hungary everyday u realize how much stuff u have and how little people out in the world have it. its sad how many childern die a day and how only some people help.
ReplyDelete1.every 5 seconds a child dies under the age of 6 because of poverty and hunger.
and i agree with alyssa. -kylee amaral
It disapoints me haw people have to live. I think if we live in paradise why doesnt every one else. Why are the countries different North America lives great but Africe lives horrible what is the difference.
ReplyDeleteAn interesting fact that I learned from these websites is that 5 million of the 9 million people a year who die of hunger are children which really makes me wonder, why isn't the world doing more to help these people? Yet, nearly 1.2 billion people suffer from obesity, which is definitely not necessary. I agree with Lennie, we need to really think about all of these people and ways to help them. I also agree with Mike, because not that many people realize how serious of an issue this is.
ReplyDeletei learned how bad hunger and poverty is .
ReplyDelete-a person dies from hunger and poverty every 3 seconds.
ReplyDelete-and every day 25000 people die
some one dies of hunger every cupple seconds, and the people of america have more food than around the world
ReplyDeleteAbout 25,000 people die every day of hunger or hunger-related causes. The problem is that hungry people are trapped in severe poverty.
ReplyDeletewith the way the world is now, to end world hunger, we must end world poverty. Food cost money and there is nothing we can do lawfully to change the way the food businesses sell or distribute their products. To end world hunger we must end world poverty
ReplyDelete2 things that i learned about poverty & hunger is that 25,000 people die each day, and litte kids are suffering and thy shouldnt be, they are just stuck and dont kno how to get out of this situation. i agree with felicia.
ReplyDeleteAbout 40-50% of food ready to be harvested never gets eaten. Over 9 million people die
ReplyDeleteAfter looking at the websites i learned that peolpe die every second basically. i agree with Sam how he/she said that a person dies every 3.6 seconds.
ReplyDeletehuger and poverty is bad and deadly... it is all over the world mostly in rural and undeveloped areas like africa.
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