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chronic persistant hunger

Famine means having no food at all. The majority of all famine cases are caused by man made or natural disasters such as war drought and earth quakes. By planning for these disasters the problem of famine could be significantly reduced. Such planning would involve predicting what’s going to happen, where it’s going to happen, how many people are likely to be effected or involved, what recourses are going to be needed when the disaster occurs (food, money and medical supplies) and who’s going to need to help (doctors, nurses, aid workers and people to help rebuild the land and homes of people effected) or even in some cases, preventing the disaster from happening. The effects of famine can be reduced but even if famine was eradicated this would only rid the world of 10% of all hunger deaths.
The much larger contributing factor to deaths caused by hunger is chronic persistent hunger this is a silent, day to day kill...

Posted by: William Katz

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