Final Project

Sociology
Rafay Ahmed ---- 211114
Miss Sumaria Osmani
June 20, 2022
Topic: Providing Food To The Impoverished
Introduction:
Food is one of the basic needs of human life. It provides people
the energy and nutrients they need to grow and develop, gain
strength, and work productively. People also connect to their
cultural or ethnic group through food patterns. Food is often
used as a means of retaining their cultural identity. People from
different cultural backgrounds eat different foods.

World Hunger:
As we know world hunger has been an issue for the past
decades and a vast majority of the world's hungry people live in
developing countries. Around the world, more than enough
food is produced to feed the global population but as many as
811 million people still go hungry. After steadily declining for a
decade, world hunger is on the rise, affecting 9.9 percent of
people globally. From 2019 to 2020, the number of
undernourished people grew by as many as 161 million, a crisis
driven largely by conflict, climate change, and the COVID-19
pandemic.

Ideas To Solve World Hunger

 Boost social protection programmes
Social welfare systems have proved to be a hugely effective social
support. But for many of the world’s most vulnerable
communities, there is no such social safety net in times of crisis.
We aim to provide this support through our cash transfer
programme in countries like Somalia.
 Promoting agriculture that is climate smart
One of the ways we mitigate against the effects of climate change
is by adopting a Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) approach. This
promotes farming practices that sustainably increase productivity
and strengthens resilience to climate related disasters. Those
practices include diversification of crop varieties, conservation
agriculture, integrated pest management, post-harvest
management, increasing access to improved farming skills and
technologies, and strengthening links with the private sector to
facilitate access to agricultural inputs from seeds to new
equipment such as solar water pumps.

 Food systems
The 2020 Global Hunger Index proposes a ‘One Health’ approach
to transforming our global food system which can help avert
future health crises such as COVID-19, restore a healthy planet
and end hunger. This approach is based on a recognition of the
interconnections between humans, animals, plants and their
shared environment, as well as the role of fair-trade relations. It
focuses on increasing sustainable practices in agriculture and
improving the overall health of humans, animals and the
environment – rethinking how we produce, process, distribute
and consume our food, as well as reduce food loss and waste.

 Identifying the most vulnerable populations and addressing their

needs first
It is the world’s poorest and most vulnerable communities that
are worst affected by hunger. By supporting them first, we can
 eliminate hunger. At the heart of our work is an undertaking to
specifically focus on the extreme poor. Our policy on
understanding extreme poverty outlines the criteria we use to
assess extreme poverty and ensures that we are supporting the
most vulnerable households in the poorest and most fragile
communities.

Organizations Working to End Hunger

 World Food Programme

 Care
 The Hunger Project
 Bread for the World

The World Food Programme

The World Food Programme (WFP) is one of the largest UN agencies helping
86.7 million people in around 83 countries every year, and delivering food
assistance in places of emergencies, as well as working with communities to
build resilience and improve nutrition. The WFP is an emergency-responder,
with 5.600 trucks, 20 ships and 92 planes on the move every day, delivering
food assistance to people struck by conflicts, floods, earthquakes, hurricanes
and other natural disasters.

Care
Care is a global organization dedicated to ending poverty and protecting
dignity of people. It works around the world to save lives, defeat poverty and
achieve social justice with a vision of “a world of hope, tolerance and social
justice, where poverty has been overcome and all people live with dignity,
where poverty has been overcome and all people live with dignity and
security”.
The Hunger Project
The Hunger Project is an international non-profit organization with a vision of
“a world where every woman, man and child lead a healthy, fulfilling life of
self-reliance and dignity”. The Hunger Projects implements programs in Asia,
Africa and South America, that aim to mobilize rural communities to achieve
sustainable progress in nutrition, family hunger, health and education.

Bread for the World

Bread for the World (Bread) is a collective organization based in the US,
working to end hunger at home and abroad. The organization advocates
against policies and programs that allow hunger and poverty to persist and is
vocal in the US Congress to change policies in its own countries and around
the world to help people who struggle with hunger.

Zero Hunger

Ending world hunger is one of the greatest challenges of our

times. Across the globe, up to 811 million people do not have
enough food and 48.9 million people are facing emergency
levels of hunger. Although enough food is produced to feed
everyone on this planet, the goal of a world with zero hunger,
as set out in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and
specifically in Sustainable Development Goal.
Unfortunately, The world is not on track to achieve Zero Hunger
by 2030. If recent trends continue, the number of people
affected by hunger would surpass 840 million by 2030.
remains hugely challenging due to a toxic cocktail of conflict,
climate change, disasters and structural poverty and inequality.
Over the past two years, the socio-economic consequences of
the COVID-19 pandemic have further exacerbated the situation.

Conclusion
In conclusion, World hunger is a real and a serious
problem not only due to its grave impacts but also
due to the complexity of the whole issue. A lot of
people in the whole world are exposed to hunger. A
critical analysis of the problem illustrates that it not
only results from low food production but it is also
affected by other factors such as inaccessibility of
food, high food prices and some policies established
by the government. We just need to work together
to make this planet a better place now and for
future generations.
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