by Maggie Mbroh

Created on: March 10, 2009

The Means of Ending World Hunger
In recent decades the means of ending world hunger has excited global concern. In the eighteenth century, a English economist, Reverend Thomas Robert Malthus(1766-1834) argued that population growth at a point in time would outrun food supply and catastrophic reductions as a result of famine, diseases and other unprecedented outcomes would set in. Nearly one out of six people in the world suffers from acute or chronic hunger. The first food shortage occurred in 1967 when a two-year drought struck most of Asia, causing a harvest shortfall of nearly thirty million tons of grain. It is estimated that one and a half million people starved to death during these food shortage times. In 1974 United States Secretary of State told gatherers at a World Food Conference:

"Today we must proclaim a bold objective: that within a decade,no child will go to bed hungry,and that no

family will fear for its next day's bread and that no human beings future and capacity will be stunted by

malnutrition" (Kissinger, Henry 4).

Ten years later United Nations report indicated that the number of hungry people had roughly doubled to four hundred and fifty million people.In fact there has never been a time in history that hunger did not exist.Currently, twenty million people, including fifteen million children, die each year from hunger. This means that forty-one thousand deaths occur every day from hunger.
Hunger affects any part of the world. Peru as well as the Sahara, Southeast Asia and Asia as a whole, including some or almost all part of Africa. Hunger also exists in some industrialized countries or First World Countries like the United States of America and Canada, where an estimated thirty million people have hunger related-problems to deal with. The United Nations has classified one hundred and forty-one countries as being Third World Countries. These Third World Countries in the world are known as the Great Hunger Belt regions. These regions includes Southeast Asia through India and its neighboring countries, known as the Indian sub-continent, the Middle East, and throughout the continent of Africa and parts of Latin America.
Going deep into its roots, hunger is caused by numerous factors. Some factors are yet to be proved.

Population is actually the main reason why hunger exists. Even though some reverend ministers, pastors and ecologists believe that population is not a major factor that excites world hunger. They claim the world is large enough

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