Poverty

Begging for your sympathy

The poorest are also typically marginalized from society and have little representation or voice in public and political debates, making it even harder to escape poverty. There are many inter-related issues causing hunger, which are related to economics and other factors that cause poverty.

 Problems of hunger, malnutrition and disease afflict the poorest in society. Many feel that high levels of inequality will affect social cohesion and lead to problems such as increasing crime and violence. Absolute poverty, however, is also a concern. While resources and energies are deployed to relieve hunger through technical measures such as improving agriculture, and as important as these are, inter-related issues such as poverty means that political solutions are likely required as well for meaningful and long term hunger alleviation. Corruption in developing countries definitely must be high on the priority lists, but so too must it be on the priority lists of rich countries. World hunger is a terrible symptom of world poverty.