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World Hunger and Poverty.
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We often hear about people’s desire to solve world hunger, or to be able to feed the world and help alleviate the suffering associated with it.

However, meaningful long-term alleviation to hunger is rooted in the alleviation of poverty, as poverty leads to hunger. World hunger is a terrible symptom of world poverty. If efforts are only directed at providing food, or improving food production or distribution, then the structural root causes that create hunger, poverty and dependency would still remain. And so while continuous effort, resources and energies are deployed to relieve hunger through these technical measures, the political causes require political solutions as well.

There are many inter-related issues causing hunger, which are related to economics and other factors that cause poverty. They include land rights and ownership, diversion of land use to non-productive use, increasing emphasis on export-oriented agriculture, inefficient agricultural practices, war, famine, drought, over-fishing, poor crop yields, etc. This section introduces some of these issues.

Solving world hunger in the conventional sense (of providing/growing more food etc) will not tackle poverty that leads to hunger in the first place. Further, there is a risk of continuing the poverty and dependency without realizing it, because the act of attempting to provide more food etc can appear so altruistic in motive. To solve world hunger in the long run, poverty alleviation is required.


October 14, 2008 | 4:58 PM Comments  1 comments

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Dikko Umar Mohammed
October 15, 2008 | 7:12 AM
APROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY is better than provind food.
Poverty alleviation was then the only way of providing suitable solutions to the great problem of todays poverty. but yet to see the enormous effort, and thinking of the optimism that poverty alleviation can solve all the problem went awry, b'cos, there are not following a proper of how to alleviate poverty, all they do is to provide food, how can food solve poverty? how?
i am suggesting that, more have to be done to help alleviate poverty, like provision of local skils, technological skils, and providing funds and programs to the desired poeple to help them do somthing, this can not be only for the government, i think out rich people should also help, people have tallents, but they are insufficient of the basic needs to let them cast thier tallents,
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