According to a United Nations' (UN) estimate, one in every six people is affected by hunger. As a result of the global economic crisis, the world's hungry peaked at 1 billion.
As reported by
GMANews.tv, there are at least 1.02 billion hungry people -- up 11 percent from last year's 915 million.
U.N. officials are now teaming up in order to find an exceptional solution to the problem of hunger that doesn't only affect third-world countries but believe it or not, it also affects western civilizations.
According to Josette Sheeran of the World Food Program -- a Rome-based U.N. agency, hungry people in at least 30 countries are reported to have gone amok and rioted against soaring food prices.
Sheeran added,
"Without food, people have only three options: They riot, they emigrate or they die. None of these are acceptable options."
In Haiti for example, people engaged themselves in deadly riots and uprising against the current prime minister because of soaring prices of basic commodities.
In the Philippines, It's troubled sight to see people searching trash cans of fast food chains in order to find something to relieve their hunger. (you can see it
here)
Similarly, it's much worse in Africa, in the countries of Ethiopia, Kenya, South Africa to name just a few.
Because of war, instability, high food prices, recession and poverty, the number of hungry people is still expected to increase within the next few years.
Meanwhile, the G8 -- the eight richest nations remains firm to it's goal of cutting the hunger rate by half come 2015. They are set to meet in Italy next month to map out their plans to help the so-called "developing countries".
The financial crisis that started in America isn't at all financial, hence it now proves to be more of a humanitarian crisis.
