{"id":27435,"date":"2018-10-23T14:06:26","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T08:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=27435"},"modified":"2018-10-23T14:06:26","modified_gmt":"2018-10-23T08:36:26","slug":"why-hunger-around-the-world-is-rising-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/why-hunger-around-the-world-is-rising-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Hunger around the world is rising again."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/learning-with-the-times-why-hunger-around-the-world-is-rising-again\/articleshow\/65836452.cms\">Why Hunger around the world is rising again.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>NEWS<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The recent \u2018<strong>The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2018\u2019 (SOFI 2018)<\/strong> report estimates that in 2017, 10.9% of the world\u2019s population was undernourished, that is, around 821 million people, which is same to that of 2010 levels.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong><u>FACTS<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li>SOFI 2018 reveals new challenges on the road to Zero Hunger, while setting out urgent actions needed to achieve the goal by 2030.<\/li>\n<li>The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World is an annual flagship report jointly prepared by <strong>FAO, IFAD, UNICEF, WFP<\/strong> and<strong> WHO<\/strong> to inform on progress towards ending hunger, achieving food security and improving nutrition. It also provide in-depth analysis on key challenges for achieving this goal in the context of the <strong>2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>In South-Asia number of undernourished have declined in India, China and Nepal and increased in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh.<\/li>\n<li>According to latest estimates India is home to more than 50% of world\u2019s wasted children and 30% of world\u2019s stunted children. One in every 5 undernourished person in the world belongs to India.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Reasons Attributed to rising Hunger<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol start=\"6\">\n<li>Due to increase in income inequality, overall wealth and ability to access food of certain people have decreased.<\/li>\n<li>Also worsening climate and economic conditions have increased undernourished people in some regions.<\/li>\n<li>Increased climate related disasters have doubled since early 1990s with the average 213 of these events occurring every year between 1990 \u2013 2016.<\/li>\n<li>Also changes in monsoon have impacted agricultural productivity.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why Hunger around the world is rising again. NEWS The recent \u2018The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2018\u2019 (SOFI 2018) report estimates that in 2017, 10.9% of the world\u2019s population was undernourished, that is, around 821 million people, which is same to that of 2010 levels. FACTS SOFI 2018 reveals new&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/why-hunger-around-the-world-is-rising-again\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why Hunger around the world is rising again.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704636833},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}