With the global population set to rise to 7.8 billion in 2022, are there still people who are hungr

The global population will increase to 7.8 billion in 2022, and the number of hungry people in the world will reach 800 million! Another 2 billion people are insidiously hungry, having food to eat, but three meals a day that is not nutritious.

The causes of hunger vary from place to place. in Africa and the Middle East.

Widespread conflict and instability have led to food insecurity. For example, this year it originated in East Africa.

of the Desert Locust Plague.

Climate change is the initial factor that brings abundant rainfall to perennially dry areas, which is conducive to locust thrive. However, if the United Nations can provide effective early intervention through WFP, it can actually reduce the damage caused by locust plagues to food production in Africa, the Middle East and South Asia to a large extent. The problem is that in the environment of frequent wars in the source of the disaster, the local people have no intention or ability to deal with the problem of locust plague.

United Nations World Food Programme.

Emergency assistance can be provided, but operations cannot be implemented in the war zone. Once the window for prevention and control of the desert locust is missed, it will be difficult to contain the spread of the disaster to the surrounding areas.

As for Asia, conflict and instability are also important causes of famine, in South and South-East Asia.

are all embodied. At the same time, Asia's large population base and density require a stable and adequate supply of food. Over the past many years, the international community has been optimistic about the progress made in eradicating hunger in Asia, but I must say that behind these impressive figures is mainly the improvement of China alone.

As China progresses toward poverty reduction and human settlements development goals, other Asia's most populous countries, such as India and Indonesia, are experiencing food security.

The whole problem will become more and more prominent, and the overall situation is not optimistic.

After the outbreak of the epidemic, Vietnam and other countries once issued a ban on rice exports, or implemented price increases and production reductions. At the time, the United Nations was worried that a food spike similar to that of 2008 would be repeated this year. Fortunately, with the prevention and control of the epidemic.

The coronavirus crisis has not triggered a global food panic or even a war. At present, the global supply and demand situation of cereals is stable, and compared with 2007-2008, the response measures of various countries to the overall food safety are more mature. However, the international food market will still face great uncertainties this year and next, and it is necessary to pay close attention to prevent problems before they occur.

A lot of people are in this state. Although the living standards of our people have reached a moderately prosperous level, many foreign countries are very poor, and the people of these countries cannot have enough to eat.

Yes. Many areas are very poor, where people are insecure and many people are hungry.

On July 6, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the International Agricultural Development Association, the United Nations Children's Conference, the United Nations World Food Programme and the World Health Organization jointly released the 2022 State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World report. According to the report, the number of people affected by hunger worldwide reached 100 million in 2021, an increase of about 46 million from 2020. What are the reasons for the increase in the number of hungry people in the world in 2021?

1. Grain import and export

Affected by the epidemic, a number of grain exporting countries have restricted or even stopped grain exports, and the global food chain has been greatly impacted, making countries heavily dependent on food imports fall into passivity, and continue to import a large amount of grain from abroad, which poses a challenge to food security.

2. Food disasters

In addition to the epidemic, locust plagues and floods and droughts have also made this year's food situation "worse". Ethiopia, Djibouti and Somalia have suffered the worst locust infestations in 25 years, food shortages have been exacerbated by food shortages for more than 22 million people in Ethiopia, nearly 30 percent of Djibouti's population is facing famine, and India has also suffered its worst locust infestation since 1993.

3. Food waste

While the food security situation is severe, the problem of food waste in the world is also very serious. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, globally, about 1 3 percent of food is lost or wasted every year, and up to 1.6 billion tons of food are wasted each year, including 1.3 billion tons of edible parts, causing direct economic losses of about $750 billion.

Postscript: The theme of the World Food Day campaign is "Grow Together, Prosper Together, Sustain Together, Action Creates the Future." "FAO calls on everyone to start small, stop food waste, cultivate eating habits conducive to green development and sustainable development, and work together to maintain global food security.

Extreme climate and economic shocks have led to famine. The current conflicts have led to a much higher increase in the number of cereals. The low efficiency of agricultural production and the abnormal climate have led to less grain harvest.

According to NBC 6**, before the outbreak of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, there were about 100 million hungry people in the world. By the time of Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the number of hungry people had risen to 100 million, and Beasley, the head of the United Nations World Food Programme, said that the latest analysis shows that about 100 million hungry people around the world are struggling to die. The number of hungry people in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean continued to rise in 2021, with an estimated 100 million Africans, 100 million Asians and 56.5 million people in Latin America and the Caribbean struggling to feed themselves.

The United Nations has set the global goal of eradicating extreme poverty and hunger by 2030, but unfortunately this goal is unlikely to be achieved.

On the one hand, due to the impact of the epidemic, there is a relative shortage of materials, and some problems in everyone's transportation will lead to this situation, on the other hand, it is also due to the current problems of economic development, and there are also social reasons.

China's population is starting to get smaller and smaller, and the willingness of young people to marry and have children is further decreasing, more than 60 years oldElderly populationThe number will be more and more.

In a way, each country and region.

The number of people will have a certain cyclical pattern. As far as our country is concerned, because our total population has reached 1.4 billion people, and our economic development is also very high, our total population has been relatively stable. Under this trend, even though the population of many countries and regions, including India, is increasing significantly, the population of our country will gradually decline, which also means that our population will be in balance with economic development.

The world's total population will reach 8 billion people.

This is a very exaggerated concept, and in 2022, the total population of all countries and regions in the world will reach 8 billion, and the total population of India will surpass that of China. After that, India will become the most populous country in the world, and our population will become smaller and smaller. <>

Our demographic trend is less and less.

For us in China, because many young people in our country are under relatively high pressure in life, and young people generally pay more attention to their personal lives, so young people are not willing to take the initiative to have children. Under this trend, the total population of our country will become smaller and smaller, and the population of some provinces and regions will even show a negative growth trend. Although many cities have introduced various measures to encourage childbearing, young people are generally reluctant to marry and have children because of the social pressure on young people.

Finally, we also need to pay close attention to the aging of the population in the country.

When the number of elderly people is increasing, we need to effectively ensure the basic quality of life of the elderly group, and at the same time, we need to pay close attention to the construction of various welfare facilities.

China's population has now shown a negative growth trend, and now it is relatively stable, India has surpassed China to become the most populous country, but China's population base is still very large.

At this stage, China's total population has shifted from increasing to decreasing, as well as a critical period of population structure, distribution and quality transformation, which is composed of a series of linkage changes intertwined with population and economic and social "inflection points".

In fact, the increase in the Chinese population is not as high as before, and some people have begun to appear that they do not want to get married and do not want to have children.