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    As we look around our world today, we see many of the struggles we face as a nations combined. From the striking pace of global warming to the never-ending reoccurrence of both civil and international wars, there is still one issue that seems to continuously be thrown on the backburner. Whether it be the highly industrialized United States and China or the severely undeveloped areas of Sub-Saharan Africa, the pandemic of world hunger plagues all countries alike. According to Oxford English Dictionary

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    and wonder what are other people doing around the world while you’re enjoying your life? Are they happy, working, or survive hunger? Their are millions of things at can cause hunger all over the world, and they are still happening.” 795 million people do not have enough of the food they need to live an active, healthy life" (Mercy Corps 1) Food hunger can happen anytime or anywhere, and can be caused by anything, too. However, some causes of hunger are by war, weather and climate, human population

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    World Hunger and Absolute Poverty Peter Singer’s characterization of absolute poverty is defined by using the criteria given by World Bank President, Robert McNamara. McNamara states that absolute poverty is, "a condition of life so characterized by malnutrition, illiteracy, disease, squalid surroundings, high infant mortality and low life expectancy as to beneath any reasonable definition of human decency." This form of poverty affects human life on all levels of existence. A comparison is given

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    The Green Revolution is a time period when technology and sciences drastically improved the agriculture production rate. For example, Pause is the author of the article “Overpopulation Is Not the Main Cause of World Hunger” and his research shows that “world food production per person has increased by 30%,” (1). The technology improvements has allowed production increase. Science has let the food production that was once limited are being expanding to were it can support more and

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    Preventing Future World Hunger We currently have enough food to feed the people of our world. But what will our situation be in the 21st Century? Can we produce enough food and conserve natural resources to sustain the population? The world's population was 5.3 billion in 1990 and is expected to increase to 12.4 billion by the year 2050, thus increasing demands for food groups by 55% for grains, 71% for soybean, 59% for meat and 56% for fish. Eighty four percent of this growth will come from

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    There are people all across the world who are struggling with hunger.  Approximately seven hundred and ninety five million people suffer from this issue.  This is approximately one-ninth of the entire world’s population that is directly affected by hunger.  These people are in third world countries, but there are also people in developed countries like the United States that are going hungry as well. Initially, when most people think about someone that is starving, they visualize someone who is very

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    World hunger has been a problem for ages. There is no particular place on Earth where people haven’t suffered from famine or other severe food supply restrictions in some period of history. However, we are just crossing the age of the Green Revolution. Science and technology are solving the issues of food production and - yet it has many problematic consequences to the environment sustainability - it is not reasonable that we face so many people starving in undeveloped countries anymore, especially

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    World Hunger And Poverty

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    developing countries and everyday, 1,000 children die because of water and sanitation - related diarrhea diseases, (Know your World: Facts about hunger and poverty). This paper is about World Hunger and the issues, it causes throughout the world. So many people suffer everyday that we don 't know about. This paper is going to make you want to reach out and help. A social problem is a world problem, that large groups of people are concerned about and want to change. A social problem is not a natural event;

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    people all around the world despite the world producing more than enough food to feed everyone. Although world hunger is an increasing dilemma in poverty-stricken countries because they do not have the finances to produce or purchase crops, in order to alleviate this problem we must eliminate meat off of our plates. As we have seen for decades, world hunger has been a chilling epidemic affecting over 925 million people, but it has little to do with food shortages. (“World Hunger Facts”, Page 1) By

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    Solution To World Hunger

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    The Solution to World Hunger As long as hunger continues to manifest itself as a worldwide problem, a step-by-step solution can be devised with the efforts of individuals, communities, and organizations. Raising Awareness Through the Power of Social Media On an individual level, there are numerous ways to spread the word about hunger to encourage people to take a step towards resolving the conflict. In a fast-paced modern world, technology is a powerful instrument in distributing information to

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