a. How many people in the world are estimated by the United Nations World Food Programme to be chronically hungry?830 million people around the world. Because of natural disasters, armed conflict and a grinding poverty that consigns the poor to chronic malnutrition, the United Nations World Food Program reported today.
b. Why is this important?
Because if people are aware then people can help,
c. What kind of report did the agency release?
A United Nations Report.
d. Why does Ms. Catherine Bertini claim people have trouble getting out of poverty and hunger?
Because the combination of poverty and disaster causes people to have even less possibility to build resources to end their hunger
e. What is the World Food Programme’s definition of hunger?
A condition in which people fail to get enough food to provide the nutrients for active, healthy lives.
g. What events have added to the problem of world hunger in the past few years?
Droughts, and natural disasters.
h. What disasters have hurt the poorest countries?
Afghanistan which has been hit by civil war.
i. Where are the largest numbers of poor and hungry people living?
Angola, Burundi, Sierra Leone, Guinea, Somalia, Sudan, Ethiopia and Eritrea.
j. Where have conditions improved over the past few years? Where have they worsened?
They have improved in Bosnia, Namibia and Botswana — they have become worse in others, like Afghanistan.
k. How many poor people did the World Food Programme feed in the year 2000?
89 million people.
l. What does Ms. Bertini say countries need in order to alleviate hunger?
Ms. Bertini said that countries struggling to overcome hunger need not only food but also water drilling and purification equipment and better sanitation and agricultural systems.
