I wouldn't call this an emerging issue, but more like a consistent issue that just won't go away. That issue is poverty. We have covered poverty pretty extensively in class and it is a pretty big issue on a national scale as well as a global scale. About 25.000 people die every day of Hunger or Hunger-related causes, according to the United Nations. This is one person every three and a half seconds. Yet there is more than enough of food in the world for everyone. The problem is that hungry people are trapped in severe poverty. They lack the money to buy enough food to nourish themselves and their family. They become weak and usually get sick due to the malnourishment. When people in poverty get sick and cant work it then makes them even poorer and hungrier. This downward spiral often continues until death for them and their families. There are effective programs to break this spiral. For adults, there are "food for work" programs where the workers are paid with food to build schools, dig wells, make roads, and other various projects. This both nourishes them and builds infrastructure to end the poverty. For children, there are "food for education" programs where the children are with food service provided when they attend school.Their education will hopefully help them to escape from hunger and poverty and in the long run end poverty all together.
Hunger and World Poverty Sources: United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) , Oxfam , UNICEF
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