What is the Global Food Crisis?
Like a "silent tsunami" the global food crisis has caught the world off-guard and left millions of people struggling to survive.
Throughout almost every region of the developing world people are experiencing localized food insecurity, lack of access to food, or shortfalls in production or supplies. According to the World Bank, in the last three years global food prices have increased overall by 83 per cent. In many developing countries the cost of food staples like rice, wheat and corn has more than doubled in the last 12 months.
One sixth of the world's population, nearly one billion people, already live on less than $1 day—the common measure of absolute poverty. Of those,162 million struggle to survive on less than 50 cents a day. Rising food prices have the greatest effect on those people already struggling with food insecurity who spend 60 per cent or more of their income on food. According to the Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization Jacques Diouf, there are now over 862 million people in the world without adequate access to food.
Every day, almost 16,000 children die from hunger-related causes--one child every five seconds.
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