Spectre of hunger

The top  leaders of the world should be disturbed by the fact that more than 113 million people across 53 countries have suffered ‘acute hunger’ last year. ‘Acute hunger’, differently called acute malnutrition, is a form of devastating epidemic and is caused by a decrease in food consumption.

The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said that countries such as Yemen, Democratic Republic of Congo, Afghanistan and Syria where wars are ravaging human life for years are on the top of the eight countries where people are at the risk of famine. African continent is the place where people are exposed to this danger more than the others.

In the FAO global report on food crises for 2019, the name of Bangladesh has also come up as it is presently suffering pressure to feed around one million Rohingya people besides its huge number of burgeoning population.

Wars creating refugees and impacts of climate change are the two main reasons for which a great number of people are remaining hungry. When this is the reality, leaders of many countries that are involved in war fail to realize that their actions are directly responsible for deaths, hunger and famine, displacing people.

Climate change is greatly impacting the food situation of countries that are not responsible for climate-induced disasters in the first place. It needs special mention that Bangladesh is a country that has hosted a huge number of refugees and is witnessing increasing floods and super cyclones as direct consequences of climate change. For global warming developed nations are solely to blame, but its victims are least developed countries including Bangladesh.

The world was, however, astonished when Donald Trump who called climate change is a hoax and withdrew the US from the Paris climate change deal that proposed to reduce green house gas emission by keeping a global temperature rise this century well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.

Moreover, wealth of the world is more and more getting accumulated in the hands of a few people due to unbridled capitalism. The world is now a small place because of technological advancement and leaders of the greater nations must solve the pressing problem of acute hunger that is so pervasive.

 

 

Spectre of hunger

The top leaders of the world should be disturbed by the fact that more than 113 million people across 53 countries have suffered acute hunger last year. Acute hunger, differently called acute malnutrition, is a form of devastating epidemic and is caused by a decrease in food consumption. The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said that countries such as Yemen, Democratic Republic of Congo, Afghanistan and Syria where wars are ravaging human life for years are on the top of the eight countries where people are at the risk of famine. African continent is the place where people are exposed to this danger more than the others. In the FAO global report on food crises for 2019, the name of Bangladesh has also come up as it is presently suffering pressure to feed around one million Rohingya people besides its huge number of burgeoning population. Wars creating refugees and impacts of climate change are the two main reasons for which a great number of people are remaining hungry. When this is the reality, leaders of many countries that are involved in war fail to realize that their actions are directly responsible for deaths, hunger and famine, displacing people. Climate change is greatly impacting the food situation of countries that are not responsible for climate-induced disasters in the first place. It needs special mention that Bangladesh is a country that has hosted a huge number of refugees and is witnessing increasing floods and super cyclones as direct consequences of climate change. For global warming developed nations are solely to blame, but its victims are least developed countries including Bangladesh. The world was, however, astonished when Donald Trump who called climate change is a hoax and withdrew the US from the Paris climate change deal that proposed to reduce green house gas emission by keeping a global temperature rise this century well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. Moreover, wealth of the world is more and more getting accumulated in the hands of a few people due to unbridled capitalism. The world is now a small place because of technological advancement and leaders of the greater nations must solve the pressing problem of acute hunger that is so pervasive.