Author: DMTR
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Tackling hunger in the 21st Century
Today, with a population of ~7.5 billion there remains over 820 million people who are chronically hungry. Population growth, increasing frequencies of conflicts and natural disasters, as well as persistent poverty and inequality threaten to drive up the number of people going hungry, above its already high rate. A combination of policy changes, economic programmes…
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Innovating to End Hunger: A promising Trend
A lot remains to be done to significantly reduce the number of people who wake up every day hungry and malnourished – today that is over 700 million men, women and children. Outside of tackling the increasing amount of conflict across the globe, responsible for extremely high levels of hunger and poverty in countries like…
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Hunger and Conflict: A Corrosive Cycle
Today, with a population of ~7.5 billion there remains over 820 million people who are chronically hungry. Conflict is a topic that I have briefly mentioned in previous posts, often called out as one of the largest contributors to global hunger but never a topic I have dared to tackle in any sort of detail.…
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Breaking the Cycle of Poverty and Malnutrition
With hundreds of millions people worldwide suffering from severe food insecurity, the current level of effort is not anywhere near enough to end malnutrition in the next decade, with a need to focus on increasing efforts in providing access to nutritious food. Poor nutrition in children in particular drives a cyclical relationship between malnutrition and…
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The Mental Toll of Food Insecurity
When you think of Food Insecurity, more often than not you will think of the physical impacts hunger has on a person’s health, with the very real toll it can take on mental health often overlooked. Mental health issues are something one in every seven people in Singapore have experienced, with resulting impacts on day…
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