Statistics and Facts

Berhane, Daniel. "Maps of Famine and Emergency Forecasts | East Africa « Danielberhane's Blog." Danielberhane's Blog. WordPress.com, 22 July 2011. Web. 17 Nov. 2011. <http://danielberhane.wordpress.com/2011/07/22/maps-of-famine-and-emergency-forecasts-east-africa/>.

• Currently, the Horn of Africa is in a dreadful food crisis, which the U.N. estimates 2.5 billion dollars are needed for the humanitarian response.
• The Kenya Dekadal Food Security Monitoring revealed that 3.75 million people are presently food insecure due to long rain season
•  Every 3.6 someone in the world dies due to starvation, 75% of them are children
• 43% of African -American children are chronically hungry
• “For the price of one missile, a school full of hungry children could eat lunch every day for 5 years” (World Hunger 1).
• There are currently about 3 billion people in the world right now struggling to survive with just two daily U.S. dollars 
• 183 million children are underweight for their age
• “To satisfy the world's sanitation and food requirements would cost only US$13 billion”- which is equivalent to “what the people of the United States and the European Union spend on perfume each year” (World Hunger 1).
• Cause of death of fifteen million children every year
• Half of the world's hungry population is in the Indian subcontinent
• 40% of the world's starving population is Africa and Asia
  

How it All Started

Famine was initiated generally in Third World countries such as Sub- Saharan Africa, South Asia and in some regions in Latin America. Basically, the cause of all the malnourishment and food scarcity is the global debt crisis of the 1980’s in which Latin America was the most severely impacted region among other several developing countries. Ever since this incident, these areas have been highly indebted with developed countries, making it hard for them to support their population with food and medical assistance, let alone sustain an adequate system of agriculture.