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Owulezi
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Hunger
August 10, 2007 - 04:41 PM
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Hunger should stop because God made food avaliable for us all. eg - air and water which are very essential are more than the whole earth,water 75percent of the whole earth while air is immeasurable and likewise all of our needs if we can do it properly.
What do you think?
Do you agree with me hunger is contributing so much to the world problem?
When can earth overcome this trend "Hunger"
This post was edited on: 2007-08-11 at 09:24 AM by: Owulezi
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Re: Hunger
August 11, 2007 - 02:48 PM
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hunger is not such an agriculture matter but often political (high prices to gain more, killing a population tru lack of food..)
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Re: Hunger
August 12, 2007 - 07:01 AM
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I think the issue of hunger should not arise. To me its rather political than natural. Politicians dont mind that the people they are governing are sleeping hungry. The food security issues are not catered or considered as important. Country's mind much on exports than on food security.
As the world advocates for achieving the Millennium Development Goals, developing countries should put more emphasis on ensuring that the food basket for their nation is put at the fore front
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Owulezi
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Re: Hunger
August 16, 2007 - 07:51 AM
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Ok, it is simply to say "hunger" is man made and can easily eradicate entitly 
Surprisingly many has not experince hunger before while many are enjoying hunger almost everyday.
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Re: Hunger
August 17, 2007 - 03:46 AM
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God apparently didn't do such a good job.
There is enough food available in the world to feed the whole population, the problem is proper infrastructure to distribute the food and being economically disabled to buy the food.
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Re: Hunger
August 17, 2007 - 06:00 AM
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Its a shame that anyone should even die of hunger.
Hunger comes as a result of human destruction on earth, deforestation, industrialization and hence polution, erosion and then the land becomes unproductive and we have to experience such oweful sights of people dying for lack of food.
God made enough for every one if only we could be more careful with nature.
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Erick Ochieng Otieno
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Re: Hunger
August 18, 2007 - 07:07 AM
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Yeh It is a problem that we, the people of the planet earth have brought unto ourselve. We need just to look back to history. Even though there was hunger, the magnitude was not as huge as today. we need to do a lot to reverse the problem arising from Climate Change due to Global Warming.
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Re: Hunger
August 19, 2007 - 09:37 AM
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I don't think only hunger contribute the world's problem. The main problem I have seen is the attitude i.e. negative. The problem is creating by those, who have sufficient to eat but negative attitude.
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Korede David Faleye
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Re: Hunger
December 8, 2007 - 10:57 AM
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Hunger is when People Struggle to feed themelves.
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Sangeeta
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Re: Hunger
December 14, 2007 - 04:07 PM
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I don't believe hunger is the number one concern either. I agree that it is an infrastructure issue, but furthermore, there is an issue of information. I think there is this wide acceptance that consumerism is responsible for hunger in the Third World, yet food is abundant and frankly, so is water. The issue of hunger always gets iffy because it is rarely discussed enough, thus the real issues are ever brough to the forefront.
Also, the global communitty needs to realize how hunger is measured: calorie counts. Yet, we need to take into account how every individual body and its needs are different from one another, especially in terms of caloric intake and metabolism. High carbohydrate foods such as cassava beans have been the resolution to hunger in a number of areas around the world, yet these food types don't contain even a minimal amount of required nutrition: it only meets the expectations of what one OUGHT to intake on a regular basis. And sure, some may argue that hunger is hunger is hunger; if a child is in need of food, something is better than nothing. Yet an empty something is false hope. A child that attends school (and this also occurs in the Developed World) without enough nutrients, they won't perform properly -- they won't have the energy nor stamina -- they will have week immunse systems and fall back on school work. And so the cycle continues to turn and becomes another reinforcer of poverty. Where one child is able to become an educated citizen, he/she is robbed of such a freedom.
The MDGs are a bit vague; even UN officials agree with that fact. Yet, that also leaves room for adjustment and focus on more than one particular area. Likewise, perhaps there should be a newfound concern toward nourishment. Someone once suggested protein supplements, which isn't a horrible idea as it is inexpensive and nourishing. But at the same time, the real thing is the real thing. Also, something like supplements may lead to food aid, which is another reinforcer to further poverty.
I also think it's upsetting that due to international debt and world trade, some countries aren't "allowed" to produce certain foods. That just pisses me off.
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Re: Hunger
December 15, 2007 - 05:37 AM
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I am quite impressed by the arguement put forward by SK007. I must say that her line of thought somehow exposed what I have on the subject matter. However, I would also add here that the degree of hunger in some communities is so dehumanising such that people are made to cultivate, produce, and sometimes serve food that they would never save enough to afford due to the economic condition they have found themselves. It is seen as better in the developed countries, but it is not an exageration to state that people die of hunger in some part of Africa including Nigeria. What makes it worst is hopelessness, some people engage themselves in what is termed compulsory fasting with a hope to get something to eat whereas the reverse is the case for a lot of people. Government statistics regarding the poverty level and inflation is based on lies and deception. A genuine trip round where people live will reveal that even in city like Lagos, people go without food for days. What an average citizen is asking of the government is food availability, functional amenities and access to good health care.
The MDGs has tried to group all the identified problems under approachable headings but a lot more needs to be done for the achievement of the set targets. It would be ideal if the UN could call a summit for the appraisal of this target and request of each signatory nation the realistic date that these goals would be achievable in their respective states rathan than a blanket command
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Korede David Faleye
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Re: Hunger
December 24, 2007 - 06:53 AM
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Hunger in my own thinking is a manifestation of Poverty. I think the way out of this is when Government redirect the priority from encouraging white colar Jobs to developing Agriculture.
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