Yemen
INTRODUCTION :
Hunger is the world’s top health concern, killing more people than do AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis combined.The number of hungry people in the world exceeds the sum of the populations of the U.S., Canada, and the European Union. A quarter of children born in developing nations are underweight.Ten years after the drafting of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the world has yet to achieve the first goal of eradicating extreme poverty and hunger.
Hunger and malnutrition are words that are often used interchangeably. The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), following the advice of the Committee on National Statistics (CNSTAT), defines hunger as “an individual-level physiological condition that may result from food insecurity.”The World Food Programme (WFP) defines hunger as “the body's way of signaling that it is running short of food and needs to eat something. Hunger can lead to malnutrition.” The WFP defines malnutrition or undernutrition as “a state in which the physical function of an individual is impaired to the point where he or she can no longer maintain natural bodily capacities.”
The average person needs approximately 2,100 kilocalories (calories) per day to maintain a normal, healthy body.Victims of hunger live on significantly less than 2,100 kilocalories per day for extended lengths of time. Hunger can cause adverse health effects—the calorie deficit can cause a person’s are lack of concentration, enervation, and weakened immune systems. Problems that result from malnutrition include being underweight, stunted, or micronutrient-deficiency.According to recent Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) statistics, most of the world’s hungry people live in developing nations. Hunger is approximately distributed among people as follows:
578 million peoplein Asia and the Pacific
239 millionpeople in Sub-Saharan Africa
53 million peoplein Latin America and the Caribbean
37 million people in the Near East and North Africa
Hunger is the world’s top health concern, killing more people than do AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis combined.The number of hungry people in the world exceeds the sum of the populations of the U.S., Canada, and the European Union. A quarter of children born in developing nations are underweight.Ten years after the drafting of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the world has yet to achieve the first goal of eradicating extreme poverty and hunger.
Hunger and malnutrition are words that are often used interchangeably. The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), following the advice of the Committee on National Statistics (CNSTAT), defines hunger as “an individual-level physiological condition that may result from food insecurity.”The World Food Programme (WFP) defines hunger as “the body's way of signaling that it is running short of food and needs to eat something. Hunger can lead to malnutrition.” The WFP defines malnutrition or undernutrition as “a state in which the physical function of an individual is impaired to the point where he or she can no longer maintain natural bodily capacities.”
The average person needs approximately 2,100 kilocalories (calories) per day to maintain a normal, healthy body.Victims of hunger live on significantly less than 2,100 kilocalories per day for extended lengths of time. Hunger can cause adverse health effects—the calorie deficit can cause a person’s are lack of concentration, enervation, and weakened immune systems. Problems that result from malnutrition include being underweight, stunted, or micronutrient-deficiency.According to recent Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) statistics, most of the world’s hungry people live in developing nations. Hunger is approximately distributed among people as follows:
578 million peoplein Asia and the Pacific
239 millionpeople in Sub-Saharan Africa
53 million peoplein Latin America and the Caribbean
37 million people in the Near East and North Africa