Causes for World Hunger ! 
Violence/War
Poverty
Racism and ethnocentrism
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Food Shortage
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Video discussing the impact everyone could have if we all helped
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Poverty causes hunger
Cannot afford food, nutritious food, or supplies to make your own food
Limited access to food
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This picture shows the trends in food insecurity by race and ethnicity
Food Insecurity
A trend that has continued is the gap in the prevalence of food insecurity between whites and the people of color.
Hispanic and non-hispanic black households were twice the rate of non-hispanic white households.
Information source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5823283/
Some people in developing countries live on $1.90 or less a day
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Syrian woman getting food aid
destruction of resources
Can cause food shortages
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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Can be a cause and effect of hunger
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Destruction of resources can cause more catastrophic harm than bombs and bullets
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.
Video explaining what food insecurity actually is
Occurs most often in developing countries
Some farmers may not have access to supplies to deal with bad weather and fight
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Covid-19 has greatly impacted food and agriculture around us.
Number one cause
Not getting enough food, leads to undernourishment and this is what happens to many people living in poverty
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)
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.
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
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