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Causes for World Hunger ! 
Violence/War
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When a civil war broke out in South Sudan in 2013, it led to 400 thousand deaths and drove 400 million from their homes and food sources.
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Poverty
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Cannot afford food, nutritious food, or supplies to make your own food
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Not getting enough food, leads to undernourishment and this is what happens to many people living in poverty
Racism and ethnocentrism
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A trend that has continued is the gap in the prevalence of food insecurity between whites and the people of color.
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A new study found that people who experience discrimination are almost twice as likely as others to struggle with hunger.
To solve poverty and world hunger, you have to take on historical and contemporary discrimination first
Food Shortage
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In 2019, the number of people who didn’t have regular access to safe, nutritious and sufficient food was estimated at 2 billion in the world. (UN)
Asia still has the majority of the world’s undernourished people which is at 381 million. Africa has a growing number of undernourished people where more than 250 million live and it’s growing faster than anywhere. (UN)
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Food Insecurity
According the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), food insecurity “is defined as a household-level economic and social condition of limited or uncertain access to adequate food”
Recent data has indicated that some time during the last year, approximately 15.6 million or 12.3% of households in the US were food insecure.
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Determinants:
poverty, unemployment, incarceration, and disability
Close to 750 million people, almost one in ten people in the world, were exposed to severe levels of food insecurity in 2019.
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