World Hunger

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and poverty can be seen in many ways.
But first lets establish a solid definition of poverty : Poverty is a state in
which the ability of individuals or groups to use power to bring about good for
themselves, their families, and their community is weakened or blocked. When
someone lacks food, this is referred to as material poverty. This sort of
poverty can hurt people in many ways, it can hurts people's self esteem and it
can also hurt their outlook on life. Lets say you come home from work to see
your family, instead of seeing a family which is happy because it has a roof
over its head you come home to see that your children don't have enough food on
the table to keep them properly nourished. This hurts familys and tears some of
them apart. It is also just a very cruel punishment because after a while of
being hungry, you start to starve to death and when you starve, the body just
starts to eat itself up to find the nourishment it needs. It can also effect
people's outlook ...

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governments
are trying to use their control on food to control the population by starving
their people. There are a few other solutions to World Hunger, for instance,
one is Food Security. The opposite of being threatened by hunger is to have
food security. The two basic elements of food security are, first, a regular
food supply large enough to meet human nutritional needs and, second, access to
a supply of food in sufficient quantity at all times to maintain a healthy,
active life. The world hunger problem is the absence of food security for 10
percent to 20 percent of the world's population. Th steady food supply could
come from fellow rich countries.
Hunger affects Third World ...

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