{"id":1068,"date":"2009-10-16T12:50:32","date_gmt":"2009-10-16T12:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=1068"},"modified":"2009-10-20T09:48:57","modified_gmt":"2009-10-20T09:48:57","slug":"hunger-still-kills-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/hunger-still-kills-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Hunger still kills people."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A child dies of hunger every 6 seconds.  A nasty statistic that we&#8217;d rather ignore.  The latest Hunger Report by The International Food Policy Research Institute shows that there are far more people hungry than we imagine.  We, who enjoy cars, TV, wifi, chocolate and junk food should be ashamed.  Maybe we would be if children were dying next to us instead of &#8220;over there&#8221;.  It is long past time due for humanity to fix its own problems.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"global hunger map 2009\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.astraea.net\/holonics\/magazine\/images\/2009\/global_hunger_map2009.gif?resize=466%2C346\" alt=\"\" width=\"466\" height=\"346\" \/><\/p>\n<p>An important part of the solution to global hunger is reducing gender inequality.  The evidence shows that higher levels of hunger are associated with lower literacy rates and access to education for women. High rates of hunger are also linked to health and survival inequalities between men and women. Reducing gender disparities in key areas, particularly in education and health, is thus essential to reduce levels of hunger.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ifpri.org\/\"> International Food Policy Research Institute<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ifpri.org\/sites\/default\/files\/publications\/ghi09.pdf\">Hunger Report 2009<\/a> 2.7MB pdf<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pestalozziworld.org\">PestalozziWorld<\/a> educating children for a better life<\/p>\n<div class=\"arr\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.actionaid.org\/\"> ActionAid<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"arr\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fao.org\/\"> Food and Agriculture Organization <\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"arr\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wfp.org\/\"> World Food Programme <\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A child dies of hunger every 6 seconds. A nasty statistic that we&#8217;d rather ignore. The latest Hunger Report by The International Food Policy Research Institute shows that there are far more people hungry than we imagine. We, who enjoy cars, TV, wifi, chocolate and junk food should be ashamed. Maybe we would be if &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/hunger-still-kills-people\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hunger still kills people.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[13,22,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-living","category-philanthropy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-he","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1068"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1070,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068\/revisions\/1070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}