IDSA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Sub-Saharan Africa, Food Security
13 Nov 2018
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The conversation: conflict and climate change lead to a rise in global hunger. Last year about 11% of the total human population (approx 850 million people on the planet) suffered from daily hunger, according to a recent united nations report on the state of food security and nutrition in the world. The numbers show a 4. 5% increase or 38 million more hungry people from the previous year. This rise in hunger is especially significant because it is the first rise in global hunger we have seen in more than a decade. Though global hunger was at 14% of the world"s population in 2005, each year since then, between 2005 and 2016, the number of hungry people on the planet dropped. Development officials were cautiously optimistic that we were on our way to eradicating hunger. Conflict and climate change are the culprits behind this year"s rise in numbers. According to the united nations, food security worsened across major parts of sub-saharan.
