Lesson 3:
Thoughts on Global Hunger
Handout 4
Reasons for Global Hunger
In the November 1996 issue of Population Today, a publication of the UN Population Information Network, some of the following reasons were given for hunger around world:
- Poverty
- Population Growth
- Natural disasters
- Wars
- Migration/ displacement of populations
- Mismanagement of natural resources
- Inadequate supply of domestically grown foods
- High cost of importing foods
- Free market policies favoring exports over production for domestic use
- Concentration of land and capital in the hands of few
- Control of food trade by multi-national corporations
- Excessive consumption by affluent people in industrialized countries (and emulative peers in developing world)
- Women’s lack of access to credit, markets, technical advice, education and health care
- Earth reaching limits for food production
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