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According to the UN, over one billion people become hungry. Hunger now affects one in six people. The number of hungry people has risen 11 percent. The number of hungry people is estimated to have reached 1.02 billion according to a recent report. The number of hungry people is growing more quickly than the global population.







Asia and the Pacific have the largest number of hungry people at 642 million. Sub-Saharan Africa has 265 million hungry people. The entire “developed world” has, by comparison, 15 million hungry people. The vast majority of all the world’s hungry people exist in the Third World.
Hunger, as defined by the UN’s FAO, is consuming less than 1,800 calories a day. This threshold is, on average, the number of calories that a person needs to maintain their body weight.
UN officials are worried that crossing this 1 billion milestone does not bode well for imperial stability. Josette Sheeran of the World Food Program, a UN agency based in Rome, pointed out that hungry people rioted in at least 30 countries last year. In one case, high food prices led to riots in Haiti that overthrew the prime minister. According to the FAO, on average, food prices were 24 percent higher in real terms at the end of 2008 compared to 2006. “A hungry world is a dangerous world,” Sheeran said. “Without food, people have only three options: They riot, they emigrate or they die.

According to the latest Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) statistics, there are more than 1 billion hungry people in the world and 915 million of them are in developing countries. They are distributed like this:

642 million in Asia and the Pacific
265 million in Sub-Saharan Africa
53 million in Latin America and the Caribbean
42 million in the Near East and North Africa









AND WE THE CULTURED MATURED AND CIVILIZED PEOPLE CELEBRATE THE POVERTY...



In 1994, the Pulitzer Prize for Photojournalism was obtained with this shocking photograph of Sudanese child. The south African photographer Kevin Carter was the author of this photograph obtained in 1993 in Ayod. the skeletal figure of a little girl, completely undernourished, bending over the earth, exhausted by hunger, about to die, dragging herself to a ONU feeding field which was a kilometer away from where she was, meanwhile in a second frame a black and expectant figure of a vulture awaits the death of the little girl.Many voices were raised at the time against Carter´s attitude, comparing in a certain way to the vulture and questioning why he hadn´t helped the little girl. Kevin confessed that he regretted not helping the little girl.

Two months after he received for this image a Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography in 1994, bitter and punished by guilt, physically unstable, depending of narcotics and destroyed by the death of one of his close friends, Kevin Carter committed suicide.