Malnourished Children Swell Ranks of World's Hungry

[Panaconda]

Malnourished Children Swell Ranks of World's Hungry
By Peter Boaz



WASHINGTON, Oct 11, 2010 (IPS) - With the number of hungry people growing to more than a billion last year, the world is "nowhere near" reaching the objectives outlined in the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), according to the latest Global Hunger Index (GHI) released Monday. The first MDG - to halve the proportion of hungry people between 1990 and 2015 - is an unlikely hope, says the 2010 GHI report.

Though the percentage of undernourished people fell from 20 percent in 1990-92 to 16 percent in 2004-06, recent global events have reversed that progress. The widespread economic recession and lingering effects of the 2007-08 global food crisis saw the number of undernourished people surpass one billion in 2009.

The GHI, a multidimensional measure of global hunger, is published jointly by the International Food Policy Research Institute, Concern Worldwide, and Welthungerhilfe.

It combines three equally-weighted indicators to assess hunger - the proportion of undernourished in the population, the prevalence of underweight in children under the age of five, and the mortality rate of children under the age of five - and to establish a score.

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[ORDagnabbit]

1. 3 words to solve the problem.... mandatory birth control. n/t

[polly7]

2. And.............. if those two children pictured were only children,

then what?

No, it goes much further than that. Getting rid of unfair tariffs, brutal loaning practises by the IMF, keeping Monsanto and GMO's from destroying native food crops, not basing world aid funds on abstinence only programs, using the UN and world's militaries to stop wars that create much of this poverty, stopping dumping that ruins their livlihoods, etc. Along with massive education on the benefits of birth-control and decent health care. imo.