World Food Day: don’t just get mad about hunger | OurWorld 2.0

World Food Day: don’t just get mad about hunger | OurWorld 2.0

More than 1 billion people live in chronic hunger, according to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO). That means that 1 of every 7 people on the planet will go to bed tonight with an empty stomach, as usual.
As the FAO’s 1 billion hungry campaign slogan goes, world hunger should make us “mad as hell”. For the world hunger problem is not one of a lack of abundance. Rather, it is a problem of distribution and economic inequalities.

During the infamous famines in the horn of Africa in the 1970s and 80s, it was commonly observed that impoverished countries like Ethiopia were exporting cash crops while their populations were starving.