Fighting Hunger from the Ground Up: Hunger Quiz

Test your knowledge about global hunger.

Worldwide, how many people are suffering from chronic hunger?

This figure represents almost one in six of our world’s population…

Freedom from hunger is a human right – true or false?

The UN Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights includes freedom from hunger as a human right

What percentage of the world’s chronically hungry people are women?

And while we’re talking about women, did you know that in the developing world, women produce 80% of the food, but own only 10% of the land…

In 2000, governments around the world made this hunger-related commitment as part of the Millennium Development Goals:

Today, more people than ever are suffering from chronic hunger, including an additional 150 million people in the past year alone. Political leaders have admitted that they will probably fail to deliver on promises to halve world hunger by 2015…

How much did the G8 pledge to improve global food security earlier this year?

Leaders at the G8 summit pledged $20 billion over the next three years to help developing countries increase their agricultural output in order to promote food security. Of course, food security will depend not only on the availability of food, but also on the ability of all people to access food and control production locally – this is what we call “food sovereignty.” Stay tuned for ways to promote food sovereignty by changing the way U.S. food aid and trade policies impact developing countries
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