14 DAY TRIAL // We just reported on World Food Day and on David Beckham's doing his best to draw attention with respect to how lack of proper nutrients impairs the physical and psychological development of countless children worldwide.
Recent news on the topic of food resources and access to them informs us that as many as 870 million individuals worldwide are presently struggling with hunger.
A UN report focusing on this issue states that, in spite of some progress having been made over the past few years in terms of dealing with the food crisis in various parts of the world, 1 in 8 people are still suffering from malnutrition.
Apparently, this is because the global economic crisis has done anything but help improve the living conditions of already challenged human communities, Mongabay informs us.
Commenting on the findings of this report, leaders of FAO (the Food and Agriculture Organization), IFAD (the International Fund for Agricultural Development) and WFP (World Food Programme) made a case of how, “We find it entirely unacceptable that more than 100 million children under five are underweight.”
More so seeing how, “[these children] are unable to realize their full human and socio-economic potential, and that childhood malnutrition is a cause of death for more than 2.5 million children every year.”
As we have previously explained, the main drive behind this ongoing hunger crisis is represented by the fact that the world's population is constantly increasing, whereas the environmental shifts brought forth by climate change and global warming are placing significant amounts of strain on agricultural practices worldwide.
In light of this report, there are some who claim that the goal of cutting hunger to 11.6% of the world's total population is still out of reach.
“We've not been producing as much as we are consuming. That is why stocks are being run down. Supplies are now very tight across the world and reserves are at a very low level, leaving no room for unexpected events next year,” one of FAO's members recently told the press.