Alert Peru (alex.am .) While there people that you simply open the cupboard to find something to eat or open the pipe to get a cup of cold water, much of the world still is subject to inclement hunger. The recent report, Global Hunger Index 2010, carried out by the Policy Research Institute International Food (IFPRI, in English) indicates that of the 122 countries included in the study, 25 have levels "alarming" hunger, and four countries in Africa recorded figures "extremely alarming", while in America, the situation is "serious in Bolivia, Guatemala and Haiti. The study shows that child malnutrition is the leading cause of hunger in the world, where nearly half of those affected are children. In fact the highest levels are in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. The study suggest that the number of undernourished in the world has experienced a rebound after falling between 1990 and 2006. The explanation is in the crisis and increasing global price of food. With regard to Latin America is serious in Bolivia, Guatemala and Haiti, while it is "moderate" hunger in other Central American countries except Costa Rica, and also South America except Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina and Chile .
It should be noted that during the last half century, global food production has skyrocketed, more than the population. Between 1990 and 1997 the per capita food production grew almost 25%, however, the number of people currently suffering from hunger in the world, 1,200 million, is the largest that ever recorded in human history. So it seems outrageous that reality when the planet produces the right amount of food for every single person. The problem of hunger is not due to food shortages, but to the way in which they are distributed. Food is available only to those who have the means to acquire them.
Another major finding is that circulate this month, the German organization Welthungerhilfe, which holds that in the past 10 years, hunger has declined slightly in some countries, including some in Latin America, but the problem is still serious because Millennium Development Goal of halving the number of hungry people in the world between 1990 and 2015 is far from being achieved. For its part, the German NGO "Famine Relief in the World" (WHH), has spread to malnutrition and malnutrition kill each year 2.2 million children.
So far this year, several studies have confirmed a worrying picture of world hunger, in this sense is another report that adds to disseminate in July the FAO and World Food Programme (WFP), called the State Food Insecurity in the World 2010, which states that the situation remains dire in many parts of the world, although the number of hungry people fell for the first time in 15 years. The PNA also said that most states are food crises in Africa.
What about nutrition?
The picture has not changed much in numbers, one of the reasons that cause hunger, for example in Southeast Asia, where there are children who weigh less than they should because their food intake does not meet their needs, mainly due to the precarious situation of women in these societies. While in Africa south of Sahara, the reasons lie elsewhere: the high infant mortality and high rate of malnourished people are the result of bad governance and conflict, political instability and high rates AIDS.
While no countries in Latin America to record the most serious level of hunger, which is 30 percent of the population or more. The country that is more severe the problem of hunger in this region is Haiti, where between 20 and almost 30 percent of the population is hungry. While the level of hunger is measured in Peru, Paraguay, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, Suriname, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama and Dominican Republic.
More info?
http://www.ifpri.org/node/7132
http://www.bbc.co.uk/mundo/cultura_sociedad/2009/11/091111_1700_unicef_desnutricion_pea.shtml
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