World Famine
Famine in the World and what it is doing to the population
Numbers
800 million people suffer from hunger and two people per 10,000 die from malnutrition each day. There are 390,000,000 Africans are consuming less than the nutritional target of 2,100 calories per day. People that live on only $1 or $2 a day, spend 70% of their money on their food. 100 million people could be pushed deeper into poverty because of rocketing food prices. Officials warn that 800,000 children could die from malnutrition. Already 29% of the population are chronically malnourisheed. 2 million people will have to be fed or face starvation. By January the number will have risen to 5.1 million.
Rising Prices
The Solution.
MLA
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